ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,295, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to ALPHA Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Handle device for vehicle" was invented by Saeko Tatemichi (Yokohama, Japan) and Ryoichi Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base fixed to a door of a vehicle, and an operation handle rotatably coupled to the handle base. The operation handle includes a coupling protruding portion that is provided at an end portion on a rotation center side of the operation handle. The handle base includes an elastically deformable elastic piece that is adjacent to the coupling protruding portion. Movement of...