ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,888, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NISHIKAWA RUBBER Co. LTD. (Hiroshima-Ken, Japan).

"Sealing structure for door of automobile" was invented by Masahiro Kojima (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yasuhiro Morihara (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A length of a sub seal of a door weather strip is sized and dimensioned in a manner that a distance is longer than a length with a glass run coupling to an outer-cabin side of a flange of a frame and the door weather strip coupling to an inner-cabin side of a door with a clip. The distance is between part of a lower part of a top end of the sub seal of the door weather strip in conta...