ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,056, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle door beam" was invented by Nobuaki Kato (Tokyo), Taku Nagahama (Tokyo), Ryo Onaka (Tokyo), Ryosuke Tetsuka (Tokyo), Naoki Katsumata (Tokyo), Shohei Ohtsuka (Tochigi, Japan) and Jiah Choi (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door beam is disclosed. The vehicle door beam includes: a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and an inner side member disposed at a vehicle inner side of the beam body. The inner side member includes: a fixing part fixed to the beam body; and a non-fixing part not fixed to the beam body ...