ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,675, issued on May 13, was assigned to AISIN Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Door handle apparatus for vehicle" was invented by Mizuya Sakamoto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door handle apparatus for a vehicle includes: a grip that is allowed to be gripped from a vehicle exterior of the door panel, the grip being supported so as to be rotatable around a shaft extending in a predetermined direction, rotating in a first direction from a first state in which an outer surface of the grip is located in a same plane as an outer surface of the door panel to be transitionable to a second state in which the grip protrudes from the o...