US Patent Issued to U-SHIN Italia on April 14 for "Flush handle assembly for a vehicle door" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,209, issued on April 14, was assigned to U-SHIN Italia S.p.A. (Pianezza, Italy).

"Flush handle assembly for a vehicle door" was invented by Sachin Sharma (Pianezza, Italy) and Guillaume Despreaux (Pianezza, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flush handle assembly for a vehicle door includes a flush handle including a grip member, an actuator, and an intermediate lever. The grip member is configured to cooperate with a latch mechanism to unlatch the vehicle door. The grip member is rotatable about a horizontal axis. The actuator is configured to move the grip member from a flush position in which the grip member extends flush to ...