US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on Feb. 3 for "Operating mechanism for operating vehicle doors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,497, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Operating mechanism for operating vehicle doors" was invented by Andreas Rudolf (Eibelstadt, Germany) and Zsolt Wilke (Bad Mergentheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an actuating mechanism for actuating, in particular unlocking and opening, vehicle doors. The actuating mechanism includes: an actuator (104), in particular with a handle, for opening vehicle doors (102); a kinematics (200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) for transmitting a movement of the actuator to a signal transmitter. The kinematics (200, 300, 400, 5...