ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,868, issued on June 23, was assigned to ISUZU MOTORS Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Tailgate opening and closing system" was invented by Junichi Yanagi (Fujisawa, Japan) and Kazuhiko Sakaki (Fujisawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tailgate opening and closing system, which includes a control device for controlling an opening and closing device that opens and closes tailgate placed in a rear side portion of a vehicle, and includes a measurement device that is placed in the rear side portion and obtains distance data to an object present behind the rear side portion, in which the control device executes, based on a plurality of the ...