ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,755, issued on May 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Mounting structure" was invented by Kodai Usuki (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Sukigara (Tokyo), Tadayoshi Iwase (Tokyo), Hiromi Sato (Tokyo), Arata Isobe (Tokyo) and Yoshito Terayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mounting structure (X), comprising: a cover (5) provided on an inboard side of a pillar (P) of a vehicle, and having an opening (15) facing inboard; an illuminating device (9) configured to illuminate interior of the vehicle via the opening; and an imaging device (11) configured to capture an image of the interior of the vehicle via the opening, wherein the ...