US Patent Issued to STABILUS on Sept. 1 for "Electric side door drive assembly for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,460, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STABILUS GMBH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Electric side door drive assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Andreas Ritter (Koblenz, Germany), Bernd Rosenstein (Koblenz, Germany), Tim Bartsch (Koblenz, Germany), Peter Oster (Koblenz, Germany), Viola Schneider (Koblenz, Germany) and Henri Becker (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric side door drive assembly for a vehicle having a length-adjustable electric actuator to bring about opening and closing of the side door, and a door movement sensor unit designed to detect stopping and a current position of the side door during opening ...