US Patent Issued to Shape on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle rocker assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,066, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Shape Corp. (Grand Haven, Mich.).

"Vehicle rocker assembly" was invented by Brian Oxley (Ada, Mich.) and Matthew Kuipers (Holland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle rocker assembly includes a sill inner and a sill outer. An upper flange portion of the sill inner is coupled with an upper flange portion of the sill outer, and a lower flange portion of the sill inner is coupled with a lower flange portion of the sill outer to enclose a hollow interior of the vehicle rocker assembly. One of the sill inner or the sill outer includes a reinforcement structure integrated in the sill wal...