US Patent Issued to MAGNA CLOSURES on April 22 for "Load equalizer for latches of closure panels in motor vehicles" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,502, issued on April 22, was assigned to MAGNA CLOSURES INC. (Newmarket, Canada).

"Load equalizer for latches of closure panels in motor vehicles" was invented by Mario Cappelli (San Giuliano Terme, Italy), Sandro Bertini (Liverno, Italy) and Francesco Cumbo (Pisa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load balancing mechanism for controlling concurrent operation of a pair of latches of a vehicle via a respective pair of links connecting the pair of latches to an actuator, the actuator for sharing by the pair of latches, the load balancing mechanism comprising: a housing for connecting to a body of the vehicle; a lever mounted to the...