US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on May 12 for "Systems and methods for opening and closing vehicle doors during manufacturing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,740, issued on May 12, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for opening and closing vehicle doors during manufacturing" was invented by Andrew DJ Gifford (Woodstock, Canada), Matthew Neal Jantzi (Kitchener, Canada), Graham A. Condon (Ingersoll, Canada), Edwin J. Bates (Kitchener, Canada), Christlin Francis (Kitchener, Canada), Curtis Cochrane (Woodstock, Canada), Nathan Andrew Swick (Hagersville, Canada), Solomon HC Au-Yeung (Richmond Hill, Canada) and Ankush Patil (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System...