US Patent Issued to Jaguar Land Rover on Feb. 10 for "Retractable handle arrangement for a door or the like" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,138, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Jaguar Land Rover Ltd. (Coventry, Great Britain).

"Retractable handle arrangement for a door or the like" was invented by Sean Smart (Rugby, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retractable handle arrangement includes a handle movable between stowed and deployed states, a motor and transmission mechanism arranged to couple the motor to the handle for moving the handle from the stowed state to the deployed state when the motor is driven in a first direction, and to modulate the force exerted on the handle and the speed at which the handle is deployed as the handle travels from the stow...