ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,857, issued on May 27, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Vehicle-mounted assembly" was invented by Keisuke Ueda (Kariya, Japan) and Taketo Harada (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-mounted assembly is designed to have a vehicle-mounted device attached to a plate-like vehicle body member with a through hole. The vehicle-mounted device includes a cylindrical member fit in a through-hole and a fastener which secures the cylindrical member to the vehicle body member. The cylindrical member includes a cylindrical main body extending along a center axis line, protrusions protruding from the main body in a d...