ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,174, issued on Oct. 28.
"Locking system for a vehicle lid" was invented by Marco Ciarmatori (Camerano, Italy), Riccardo Grossi (Osimo, Italy) and Tommaso Riste' (Jesi, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking system for locking a lid of a vehicle including: a lid, a movement actuator for moving the lid, a lock having a roto-translating pin with a head suitable for being engaged in a seat of the lid, and an actuator of the lock that moves the roto-translating pin. The actuator has an electric motor and a motion reducer. The electric motor is suitably configured so as to rotate in a first rotational direction to move the roto-tra...