ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,005, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INOAC Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Vehicle undercover and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Koji Nakamura (Anjo, Japan), Takuya Sumi (Anjo, Japan) and Takashi Yamaguchi (Kaizu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle undercover is provided with: a plate-shaped body made of a porous material such as a fiber body or a foam; and a support body supporting the plate-shaped body. The support body has a groove-shaped first frame part having a transverse plate and longitudinal plates extending from both edges of the transverse plate. Further, the support body has a second frame part prov...