ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,651, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Johnan Manufacturing Inc. (Ueda, Japan).
"Window regulator" was invented by Hiroki Shimizu (Ueda, Japan) and Syugo Tanaka (Ueda, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A window regulator installed on a door panel of a vehicle door. The window regulator includes a carrier plate that supports a window glass of the vehicle door, a guide rail that supports the carrier plate in an ascendable and descendible manner, a housing including a rail fitting portion to which an end portion of the guide rail is fitted, and a cover plate that closes a working hole of the door panel. The housing and the cover pl...