US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on April 22 for "Ramp lock extractor tools, systems, and methods for disassembling mutlipart component bodies" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,477, issued on April 22, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Ramp lock extractor tools, systems, and methods for disassembling mutlipart component bodies" was invented by Veeraraghavulu Vannemreddi (Farmington, Mich.), Alejandro E. Carrillo (Clarkston, Mich.) and Ian J. Phillips (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are ramp lock extractor (RLE) lift tools for disassembling multipart assemblies, methods for making/using such lift tools, and vehicles with multipart assembly modules disassembled by such lift tools. A method of separating first and second component bodies joined together vi...