ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,652, issued on March 11, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body structure" was invented by Shingo Nakayama (Tokyo), Kouya Sugawara (Tokyo) and Satoshi Yoshihara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body structure includes a garnish provided on an outer side of a vehicle, an adapter joined to the garnish, a radar device supported by the adapter, and a cover joined to the garnish and covering the radar device. The garnish includes a mounting hole, a first annular rib extending to surround the mounting hole, and an annular surface defined by an edge part of the mounting hole and the first annular rib. Th...