ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,338, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Shigeru Co. Ltd (Ota, Japan) and Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle exterior component" was invented by Shinsuke Hosono (Ota, Japan), Yasuhiko Irie (Tokyo) and Miyoshi Itahana (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A garnish 10 (exterior component) includes a body 11 having a plate configuration and a plurality of protruded ridges 15, 16 protruded from a back side of the body and extending with a generally constant distance from each other. The garnish 10 is adhesively attached to a vehicle body panel 20 via a shared double-faced adhesive tape 40 adhered to distal end surfaces of the plurality of pr...