US Patent Issued to Valeo Electrification on Aug. 4 for "Closure device for a front-end air flow of a motor vehicle, comprising a shutter fastening system" (Indian, Czech, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,866, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Valeo Electrification (Cergy Pontoise, France).

"Closure device for a front-end air flow of a motor vehicle, comprising a shutter fastening system" was invented by Vijendra Kumar (Chennai, India), Sebastien Velasco (Chennai, India), Vladimir Szegeny (Prague) and Frederic Vacca (La Verriere, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shut-off device including: a support frame with a front face and a rear face and having four sidewalls, at least one flap which is disposed within the support frame and is able to pivot about a pivot axis between a first, open, end position and a second, closed, end posi...