US Patent Issued to Textron Innovations on July 22 for "Stowable vehicle door securing system and apparatus" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,097, issued on July 22, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc. (Providence, R.I.).

"Stowable vehicle door securing system and apparatus" was invented by Savithramma Narayanappa (Bangalore, India), Sheshaprasad Hassan Subramanya (Bangalore, India), Timothy Carr (Fort Worth, Texas) and Bobby Howard Mosier (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an apparatus for maintaining a position of a vehicle door relative to a vehicle frame may include a link and a fastener. The link may have a first end and a second end. The first end may have a loop and the first end may be at an opposite end of the link from the second ...