US Patent Issued to INTEVA PRODUCTS on May 12 for "Vehicle latch with cinching mechanism" (Chinese, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,578, issued on May 12, was assigned to INTEVA PRODUCTS LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Vehicle latch with cinching mechanism" was invented by Hector Sanchez Rojas (Chih, Mexico), Pedro Alfredo Alvarado Heredia (Chih, Mexico), Jesus Osvaldo Alvarez Morales (Chih, Mexico), Miguel Angel Baray Gonzalez (Chih, Mexico), Victor Daniel Varela Antillon (Chih, Mexico), Yan Lianming (Shanghai) and Qu Train (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle latch (10), including: a cinching mechanism (40) internal to the vehicle latch (10), the cinching mechanism including: a cinching lever (18) operably coupled to an actuator (20) via a cable (30), the c...