ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,454, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).

"Actuating assembly for a door element displaceably accommodated in a motor vehicle" was invented by Rajeev Kumar Singh (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuating assembly for a door element displaceably accommodated in a motor vehicle includes a door lock, a door holding lock and a handle, wherein the door lock can be unlocked by actuating the handle in a first direction, and the door holding lock can be unlocked by actuating the handle in an opposite direction, and wherein the handle of the actuating assembly can be held for electrically actu...