ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,592, issued on March 11, was assigned to ALPHA Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Lid device" was invented by Mitsuo Nishizuka (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid device to be mounted on an oil filler port or an power supply port of a vehicle and for opening and closing the oil filler port or the power supply port includes a housing configured to be assembled to the oil filler port or the power supply port, a support body provided to be rotatable with respect to the housing, and a lid body attached to the support body. Reinforcing rib protruding toward a lid body side is formed on the support body. A portion of the reinforc...