ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,132, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Door mirror structure" was invented by Yukihiro Moriyama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Atsushi Yakushinji (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door mirror structure comprises a door-mirror body portion, a mirror base having a tip-end portion fixed to the door-mirror body portion and a base-end portion provided away from the tip-end portion, a rotational support axis connected to the base-end portion and rotatably supporting the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between a mirror-use position and a mirror-storage position, and an electromot...