ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,191, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of producing structure" was invented by Yoichi Sato (Tokyo), Yutaka Yamagishi (Tokyo) and Kazuma Ashizawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a structure by coupling a first component to a second component and inserting a shim into a gap formed between the first component and the second component includes: measuring first and second profiles of first and second surfaces of the first and second components before completing positioning of the first and second components to coupling positions; measuring third and fourth profiles of third and fo...