US Patent Issued to Witte Automotive on Nov. 4 for "Lock arrangement-in particular, for an engine hood of a vehicle" (Czech Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,455, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Witte Automotive GmbH (Velbert, Germany).

"Lock arrangement-in particular, for an engine hood of a vehicle" was invented by Miroslav Svoboda (Plzen, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lock arrangement may have a claw for a locking element, a safety catch for the locking element, and a pawl which interacts with the safety catch. The safety catch may be mounted on a first bearing bolt so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation. The pawl may be mounted on a second bearing bolt so as to be rotatable about a second axis of rotation. The safety catch may have a base body having a...