US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 16 for "Vehicle door assembly including a door latch stopper bracket" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,805, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle door assembly including a door latch stopper bracket" was invented by Naipaul D. Ramoutar (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Willliam F. Graves (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle door assembly including a door handle assembly and a door latch assembly that includes a door latch device operatively connected to the door handle assembly using a latch release lever that moves along a travel path to place the door latch assembly in an unlatched c...