ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,359, issued on June 10, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Door mirror structure" was invented by Yukihiro Moriyama (Hiroshima, Japan) and Eisuke Kuramoto (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door mirror structure comprises a mirror unit and a support member fixing the mirror unit to a frame member inside a side door. The mirror unit 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...