US Patent Issued to Volvo Bus on April 1 for "Hatch operating mechanism" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,522, issued on April 1, was assigned to Volvo Bus Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Hatch operating mechanism" was invented by Tomasz Niechcial (Wroclaw, Poland) and Damian Prukacz (Wroclaw, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hatch operating mechanism is arranged to control opening and closing movements of a hatch covering an opening in a vehicle. The mechanism comprises a first arm and a second arm each having a first end and a second end, wherein each arm is rotatably attached to the vehicle at the first end and rotatably attached to the hatch at the second end. First and second connecting elements extend between and are displaceab...