ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,820, issued on April 29, was assigned to Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG (Velbert, Germany).

"Modular actuating device, vehicle, and method" was invented by Sven Hild (Hagen, Germany), Steffen Leib (Ratingen, Germany), Yevgen Dementyev (Wuppertal, Germany), Igor Alexander Gorenzweig (Wuppertal, Germany) and Andreas Gornik (Gevelsberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an actuating device (10) for triggering a function of a vehicle (1) by a user, having an electronics unit (12) with a sensor unit (20) for detecting an actuation action (200) of the user for triggering the function of the vehicle (1), an ...