US Patent Issued to T-MAX (HANGZHOU) TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Vehicle and vehicle step apparatus with multiple drive motors" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,337, issued on July 21, was assigned to T-MAX (HANGZHOU) TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Vehicle and vehicle step apparatus with multiple drive motors" was invented by Xinfa Du (Hangzhou, China), Qi Zhang (Hangzhou, China) and Yiming Wang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for operating a motorized vehicle step that comprises driving, by a first motor assembly, a first step bracket to move a step, coupled to the first step bracket, between a first extended position and a first retracted position; driving, by a second motor assembly, a second step bracket to move a step, coupled to the second...