ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,076, issued on July 1, was assigned to Southco Inc. (Concordville, Pa.).
"Electronically actuated and locking glove box system" was invented by Henry Daniel Birch (Worcester, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic latch includes a housing, a motor having an output shaft, a gear arrangement comprising at least one gear that is configured to be driven by the output shaft of the motor, a rack coupled to the gear arrangement and configured to move in response to motion of the gear arrangement, and at least one pawl or pawl connector that is connected to the rack. Motion of the rack causes or permits the at least one pa...