US Patent Issued to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA on Aug. 4 for "Gate for a vehcile" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,915, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NISSAN NORTH AMERICA INC. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"Gate for a vehcile" was invented by Daniel Rodriguez (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Dale Butterworth (Brighton, Mich.), Mitsuyasu Hikosaka (Novi, Mich.) and James Iwanski (Oxford, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a cabin area, a cargo area, a gate and a latch receiver. The gate is disposed between the cabin area and the cargo area. The gate has a closed configuration disposed in an opening in a wall separating the cabin area and the cargo area and an open configuration disposed within the cabin area. The gate includes a latch. The l...