ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,848, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTEVA PRODUCTS LLC (Troy, Mich.).

"Window regulator with optimized motor configuration" was invented by Brian H. Staser (Oxford, Mich.), Lisa Marie Hopman (Oxford, Mich.), Kevin VanDevender (Lapeer, Mich.) and Olivia Nowak (Findlay, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A window regulator for raising and lowering a window of a vehicle, including: a guide rail; a cursor slidably mounted to the guide rail; a flange portion mounted to a bottom end of the guide rail, wherein the flange portion has a rail mounting portion and an arm portion extending from the rail mounting portion and a mounting porti...