US Patent Issued to Kiekert on June 23 for "Motor vehicle lock" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,852, issued on June 23, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).

"Motor vehicle lock" was invented by Holger Schiffer (Meerbusch, Germany), Michael Scholz (Essen, Germany), Cyrille Roussel (Mettmann, Germany), Omer Inan (Dorsten, Germany) and Peter Szegeny (Engelskirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle lock, in particular a motor vehicle door lock is provided with an actuation lever chain for a locking mechanism. The actuation lever chain has at least one actuation lever and a coupling element. A mass inertia element is also produced, which acts on the coupling element at least in the event of a cra...