ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,583, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Brose SchlieBsysteme GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).
"Motor vehicle lock" was invented by Ludger Graute (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle lock including a latch pivotable about a latch axis to an opening position and to a closing position. In the assembled state, the latch is in retaining engagement with a striker in the closing position, and in the opening position, the latch releases the striker, a blocking mechanism configured to be brought into a blocking state to block the latch in the closing position, and configured to be brought into a release state to release the ...