ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,920, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Witte Automotive GmbH (Velbert, Germany).
"Vehicle door having a handle assembly" was invented by Reinaldo Mensch (Wuppertal, Germany), Partick Handl (Dormagen, Germany) and Karsten Steinhauer (Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door having a handle arrangement. The vehicle door includes a door support structure and a channel strip that is arranged on the upper side of the door support structure. The handle assembly has at least one handle element and at least one first sensor module, where the first sensor module can be arranged and fixed on the outside on an upper side of...