US Patent Issued to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Hybrid rocker reinforcement for small overlap impact" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,049, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V. (Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands).

"Hybrid rocker reinforcement for small overlap impact" was invented by Dinesh Munjurulimana (South Lyon, Mich.) and Dhanendra Kumar Nagwanshi (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing structural support for a vehicle, the apparatus comprising a rocker panel component defining a channel extending along an axis, a partition disposed in the channel to define a first channel portion and a second channel portion, a first plastic reinforcement disposed in the first channel portion and coupled to the rocker pane...