ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,358, issued on May 5, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Operation device" was invented by Jinichi Tanabe (Tochigi, Japan), Takayoshi Ito (Tochigi, Japan), Kazumasa Narita (Tochigi, Japan), Yuma Miyamoto (Tochigi, Japan), Akihito Kobayashi (Tochigi, Japan) and Kodai Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an operation device which can be easily installed on a vehicle door, and a vehicle door comprising the operation device. An operation device of the present invention comprises: a gripper provided on an inner surface of a door of a vehicle; an operation interface provided...