US Patent Issued to MEIDENSHA on May 6 for "Jacking point structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,278, issued on May 6, was assigned to MEIDENSHA Corp. (Tokyo).

"Jacking point structure" was invented by Yoichi Uematsu (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshinori Sugahara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroaki Tanaka (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A jacking point structure disposed to project from a bottom surface of a vehicle and structured to be jacked up by a jacking device to provided. The jacking point structure includes a bottom including a jacking point surface structured to be lifted up first by the jacking device, and a partial contact surface disposed around the jacking point surface. The bottom of the jacking point structure may ...