US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on May 27 for "Emergency access device for a vehicle openable leaf" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,841, issued on May 27, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hanover, Germany).

"Emergency access device for a vehicle openable leaf" was invented by Xavier Bajul (Toulouse, France) and Nicolas Lefrancq (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Emergency access device for a vehicle opening leaf, including: -a graspable pull rod that is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position; -a retention needle that is movable transversely to the pull rod between a position for blocking the pull rod in its retracted position and a position for releasing the pull rod; -an electric ejector designed to release the pull ...