ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,099, issued on May 6, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"End zone overhead display structure for vehicles" was invented by Kohei Inoue (Utsunomiya, Japan), Patrick J. Ellison (Plain City, Ohio), Taiga Marukawa (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Kosaku Tomozawa (Utsunomiya, Japan), Akira Futatsuhashi (Utsunomiya, Japan), Takashi Nakano (Utsunomiya, Japan), Jagpaul S. Pandher (Plain City, Ohio) and Tsuyoshi Higuchi (Utsunomiya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For a vehicle interior compartment defined by a vehicle floor, opposing sidewalls, a forward end and a rearward end, and a vehicle ceiling covering at least part of the co...