US Patent Issued to Kiekert on July 7 for "Opening device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,349, issued on July 7, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).

"Opening device" was invented by Michael Berres (Cologne, Germany) and Bernhard Drost (Isselburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an opening device for a motor vehicle door, in particular a handle-free motor vehicle door such as, for example, a handle-free motor vehicle side door. For this purpose, the opening device has an electromotive drive (1 to 4) and an associated actuator (5) for acting on a door leaf. The actuator (5) acts on the door leaf with a travel-dependent force along its actuating travel(S). According to the inven...