US Patent Issued to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on July 1 for "Door system and a method for improving durability of a vehicle during a roof crush" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,080, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Door system and a method for improving durability of a vehicle during a roof crush" was invented by Martin Larsson (Alvangen, Sweden), Martin Svensson (Kullavik, Sweden) and Henrik Grammahage (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door system for a vehicle includes a vehicle body structure and a first door structure. The first door structure includes a first door beam extending between a lower part and an upper part of the vehicle body structure when the firs...