US Patent Issued to STABILUS on March 18 for "Drive system for opening and closing a motor-vehicle door, and motor vehicle having the drive system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,922, issued on March 18, was assigned to STABILUS GMBH (Koblenz, Germany).

"Drive system for opening and closing a motor-vehicle door, and motor vehicle having the drive system" was invented by Axel Knopp (Eitelborn, Germany) and Wilhelm Schwab (Koblenz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive system for a motor vehicle door is provided including an electric motor and a hinge for fastening the motor vehicle door. The hinge includes a door leaf, a body leaf for attachment to the body and a hinge pin arranged coaxially to the hinge axis, and rotatably mounted on the body leaf. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor ar...