MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517015229 A) filed by Kiekert Aktiengesellschaft, Heiligenhaus, Germany, on Feb. 21, for 'lock for a motor vehicle.'

Inventor(s) include Orzech, Udo; and Sturm, Christian.

The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a lock (1) for a motor vehicle, having a locking mechanism (2) consisting of: a rotary latch (3) and at least one pawl (4, 5), the rotary latch (3) being latchable in a pre-latch position (36) and a main latch position (37); a pre-latch pawl (4) and a main latch pawl (5), a pre-latch (17) of the lock...