ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,334, issued on March 24, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).
"Motor vehicle door arrangement" was invented by Tobias Klocke (Solingen, Germany), Thorsten Bendel (Oberhausen, Germany) and Uwe Reddmann (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle door arrangement is equipped with at least one electromotive drive for positioning a door leaf in a predetermined gap position relative to a motor vehicle body. A state sensor which is connected to a control unit and detects the state of the door leaf is also provided. The control unit acts on the electromotive drive in accordance with signals of the state se...