ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,085, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).

"Method for carrying out a closing operation, closing device, server apparatus and communication terminal for carrying out a method of this type" was invented by Andreas Hanauska (Preith, Germany), Christian Gruber (Wolkertshofen, Germany), Norbert Seuling (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Mohammad Shaikh (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for carrying out a closing operation of a closing part device of a vehicle driven by an electric motor drive unit is disclosed. The method has the following steps: ascertaining friction ...