US Patent Issued to Alpha on Dec. 30 for "Door handle device for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,927, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Alpha Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Door handle device for vehicle" was invented by Takashi Ono (Yokohama, Japan), Noriaki Ito (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuhisa Yabumoto (Yokohama, Japan) and Hideki Sano (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door handle device for a vehicle includes: a handle member attached to a door to be handled by a user, the handle member having a front cover, and a back cover; and a handling detection sensor for detecting the handling of the handle member, wherein the back cover includes: a pair of movement-restricted portions arranged at both ends of the back cover, wh...