ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,052, issued on March 18, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle slope apparatus" was invented by Eisuke Sato (Kariya, Japan) and Tomoyuki Kato (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle slope apparatus includes a slope plate configured to be deployed at a lower end of a door opening portion, a guide rail extending in deployment and housing directions of the slope plate, a moving member configured to move along an extending direction of the guide rail, a support arm rotatably connected to a rear end of the slope plate and rotatably connected to the moving member, and a lift mechanism configured to lift the...