US Patent Issued to Via Fortuna on March 18 for "Automotive door and window systems, devices, and methods" (Swedish, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,993, issued on March 18, was assigned to Via Fortuna LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Automotive door and window systems, devices, and methods" was invented by Pablo Kunz Arrache (Vanersborg, Sweden), Jean Pierre Pinsonneault (Antibe, France) and Jason Castriota (Stamford, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may include a vehicle without a B-pillar that has barn doors and partially frameless windows. The barn doors may include a window seal system having a primary seal for creating a watertight barrier when the window is in a first closed position. Upon the vehicle exceeding a predetermined speed threshold, the vehicl...