ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,939, issued on July 29, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugtelle SE & Co. KG Bamberg (Bamberg, Germany).
"Window lift of a motor vehicle and method of mounting a cable drum" was invented by Lubos Licko (Nitrianske Pravno, Slovak Republic), Thomas Krieger (Breitengussbach, Germany) and Martin Janos (Spisske Vlachy, Slovak Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A window lift for a motor vehicle contains a functional support for at least one guide rail, which slidably guides a rail slider for retaining a vehicle window, and a cable drive device. The cable drive device has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing, into which a cable drum...