ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,454, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle door opening device" was invented by Naoya Ishida (Kariya, Japan), Eiji Itami (Kariya, Japan), Hideyuki Kanie (Kariya, Japan) and Yasuhiro Ishikawa (Okazaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door opening device includes a lock control device configured to switch a door lock device to an unlocked state when an operation on a first operation member is detected, and a latch control device configured to: when an operation on a second operation member is detected while the door lock device is in the unlocked st...