US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Device having electromechanical transducers for detecting approach and/or contact in a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,264, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Device having electromechanical transducers for detecting approach and/or contact in a motor vehicle" was invented by Bertrand Varoquie (Toulouse, France) and Marina Labalette (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for detecting contact with and/or an approach toward a motor vehicle. The device includes a vibration generator, including a first electromechanical transducer configured to be mounted on an external element of the motor vehicle, and an electrical signal generator that delivers, to the first electromechanical transd...