ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,885, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Rear gate structure of vehicle" was invented by Kouhei Shirakawa (Tokyo), Naohisa Isobe (Tokyo) and Kenichirou Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear gate structure of a vehicle includes an outer panel, an inner panel, an outer peripheral skeleton part, and a stiffening plate. The outer panel constitutes an outer surface of the vehicle by the rear gate. The inner panel is provided inside the vehicle with respect to the outer panel. The outer peripheral skeleton part is formed on the inner panel along an outer peripheral edge of the inner panel. The stiffen...