US Patent Issued to AISIN, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Vehicle door lock system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,909, issued on March 18, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle door lock system" was invented by Daiki Kato (Kariya, Japan), Natsumi Onodera (Kariya, Japan), Hisashi Itonaga (Kariya, Japan), Toshitsugu Oda (Kariya, Japan), Yoshihiro Yamaguchi (Kariya, Japan), Shinsuke Takayanagi (Kariya, Japan), Shunsuke Kanagai (Anjo, Japan), Nobuo Hayama (Kariya, Japan) and Tsubasa Ikeuchi (Kariya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door lock system is applied to a vehicle including a vehicle body having a door opening and a door, and the vehicle door lock system includes a strike...