US Patent Issued to INTEVA FRANCE, MARQUARDT on May 13 for "Electronic vehicle latch with separately attached control unit" (French, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,667, issued on May 13, was assigned to INTEVA FRANCE (Sully-sur-Loire, France) and MARQUARDT GMBH (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany).

"Electronic vehicle latch with separately attached control unit" was invented by Pascal Philippe (Saulcy/Meurthe, France), Jean-Marc Belmond (Saint-Jean le Blanc, France), Jean-Bernard Didier (Anould, France), Philippe Ottolini (La Voivre, France), Frederic Burkat (Saulcy sur Meurthe, France), Daniel Lopez (VS-Obereschach, Germany), Christian Holdenried (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Oliver Huppenbauer (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle latch assembly. The vehicl...