ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,086, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Montor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle horn configuration structure" was invented by Takahiro Daibo (Tokyo), Hiroshi Suzuki (Tokyo) and Yusuke Takeuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The vehicle horn configuration structure includes: a bumper beam arranged at a front of a vehicle and extending in a vehicle left-right direction; a bumper cover arranged at a position forward of the bumper beam in a vehicle front-rear direction; a horn component arranged at a position rearward of the bumper beam in the vehicle front-rear direction, and arranged at a position so that a sound-emitting part...