ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,994, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).
"Opening apparatus for a motor vehicle door element" was invented by Uwe Reddmann (Essen, Germany), Holger Schiffer (Meerbusch, Germany), Omer Inan (Dorsten, Germany), Christian Sturm (Krefeld, Germany) and Peter Szegeny (Engelskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle lock having a locking mechanism with a rotary latch and at least one pawl, wherein a rotary movement of the rotary latch can be locked by means of the pawl, an electric drive device with which the pawl can be transferred from a locking position into a release position for ...