US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 25 for "Vehicle hood apparatus and method" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,072, issued on March 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle hood apparatus and method" was invented by Steven C. Heinrichs (Raymond, Ohio), Stephen D. Rosenkrantz (Raymond, Ohio), Patrick J. Ellison (Raymond, Ohio), Taiga Marukawa (Raymond, Ohio), Kosaku Tomozawa (Raymond, Ohio), Akira Futatsuhashi (Raymond, Ohio), Gilberto Larrache-Irizarry (Raymond, Ohio), Steve Faria (Raymond, Ohio), Keiichiro Tsuji (Raymond, Ohio) and Takashi Nakano (Raymond, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle hood assembly can include a vehicle body structure and a hood moveable with respect to the vehicle body structure from a cl...