US Patent Issued to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on April 1 for "System for automatically closing a trunk lid of a vehicle" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,529, issued on April 1, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"System for automatically closing a trunk lid of a vehicle" was invented by Jonathan Johansson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Erik Lindberg Nilsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatically closing a trunk lid of a vehicle. The system comprises a trunk sensor system configured for detecting items in a luggage trunk, a trunk lid actuator for automatic closing of the trunk lid, and a control unit connected to the trunk sensor system and to the...