ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,442, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).
"Vehicle door handle device" was invented by Naoki Tokudome (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kenichiro Kaneko (Kiyosu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This vehicle door handle device includes: a door handle provided to a vehicle door and shiftable between a stored state of being stored in the vehicle door and an exposed state of being exposed from a surface opening of the vehicle door, the door handle being configured to allow an opening operation of releasing a latch of the vehicle door in the exposed state; a door handle actuator configured to shift the doo...