US Patent Issued to Witte Automotive on May 6 for "Vehicle with an unlocking mechanism, locking mechanism, and/or opening mechanism for an electronic lock" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,901, issued on May 6, was assigned to Witte Automotive GmbH (Velbert, Germany).

"Vehicle with an unlocking mechanism, locking mechanism, and/or opening mechanism for an electronic lock" was invented by Reinaldo Mensch (Wuppertal, Germany), Ralf Hohn (Velbert, Germany) and Karsten Steinhauer (Essen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may have an unlocking mechanism and/or locking mechanism and/or opening mechanism for an electric vehicle lock where at least one contactless, triggering device for actuating the unlocking mechanism, locking mechanism, and/or opening mechanism, and a status indicator of the unlocking mechani...