ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,248, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Vehicle door control system" was invented by Tetsuya Nagasaki (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door control system includes a courtesy switch that detects an opened/closed state of a side door, a latch actuator that performs an unlatch operation for releasing a latch that holds the side door in a closed state, an unlatch switch that is provided in a vehicle compartment and is operated by a user when releasing the latch, and a controller that causes the latch actuator to perform the unlatch operation when the unlatch switch ...