ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,933, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle door beam" was invented by Taku Nagahama (Tokyo), Ryo Onaka (Tokyo), Nobuaki Kato (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 a vehicle; and a bracket joining the beam body to the vehicle door body. The bracket includes a rib formed continuously on an extension line of the bracket extending along the beam body, and the rib is continued to a position of an e...