ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,084, issued on April 29, was assigned to HUSHAN AUTOPARTS INC. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Car door inner handle mount repair method and structure" was invented by Ying-Chih Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ching-Chiang Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chang-Sheng Su (Keelung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Car Door Inner Handle Base Repair Method is a technique used to repair the fracture and separation of the welding post between the car door inner handle base and the inner door panel body without the need to replace the entire car door inner panel assembly. This method involves creating an identical repair component by copying the car door ...