ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,887, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA CORPORATION DUCK YANG INDUSTRY CO., LTD. (Ulsan, South Korea).
"Structure of flap part for covering rail part when opening sliding door of vehicle" was invented by Jae-Seung Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chung-Sik Yim (Anyang-si, South Korea), Yong-Hyun Nam (Anyang-si, South Korea), Kyu-Hoon Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Gwang-Seob Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure of a flap part for covering a rail part when opening a sliding door of a vehicle, includes a door flap part including an installation hole, ...