ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,481, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Fascia door and washer fluid reservoir" was invented by Kunihiro Sakai (Haga-gun, Japan) and Ritesh Pawar (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fascia door assembly including: a fascia door support bracket having a support bracket opening; a fascia door bracket coupled to the fascia door support bracket and having a bracket opening; and a fascia door engaged with the fascia door bracket in the bracket opening, the fascia door having an opened position in the bracket opening and a closed position in the bracket opening."

The patent was filed on No...