ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,669, issued on May 13, was assigned to MAGNA CLOSURES INC. (Newmarket, Canada).
"Closure latch assembly with power-operated actuator providing multiple powered functions" was invented by Kris Tomaszewski (Newmarket, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power latch assembly for motor vehicle closure applications has a single motor operable to move a pawl from a ratchet holding position to a ratchet releasing position and place the power latch assembly in at least one of a lock state and a child lock state."
The patent was filed on Nov. 16, 2022, under Application No. 17/988,751.
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