US Patent Issued to KIEKERT on May 19 for "Motor-vehicle lock" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,056, issued on May 19, was assigned to KIEKERT AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).

"Motor-vehicle lock" was invented by Omer Inan (Dorsten, Germany), Peter Szegeny (Engelskirchen, Germany), Michael Scholz (Essen, Germany), Holger Schiffer (Meerbusch, Germany), Manuel Reusch (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Michael Herrmann (Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for operating an opening drive for a motor-vehicle lock, in particular motor-vehicle door lock. Also provided is a locking mechanism which consists substantially of a rotary latch and a pawl. Further, a sensor associated with the rotary latch is provid...