ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,020, issued on June 10, was assigned to ALPHA Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Inside handle device" was invented by Mitsuo Nishizuka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inside handle device includes a handle case, and a handle lever rotatably supported by the handle case. The handle lever is inserted into the handle case along a rotation axis of the handle lever with respect to the handle case. The handle case includes a case main body into which the handle lever is inserted, and a coming-off prevention member configured to restrict a movement of the handle lever in a direction along the rotation axis and to prevent the hand...