US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on June 17 for "Apparatus for moving a lower lid of a split tailgate in a car" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,485, issued on June 17, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Apparatus for moving a lower lid of a split tailgate in a car" was invented by Christer Dominique (Gothenburg, Sweden), Ebrahim Shakil (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Gerardo Morales (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for moving a lower lid of a split tailgate in a car, including: a Bowden cable; a drive unit configured to drive the Bowden cable; and a mechanical interface configured to be connected with an end portion of the Bowden cable and with the lower lid of the split tailgate of the car; the mechanical interface including a str...