ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,299, issued on March 4, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle door structure" was invented by Tomonori Aoyama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door structure includes a weather strip part including hard member and soft members that are integrally molded, and includes: a base; a first seal portion in close contact with a protrusion in a fitting portion from a vehicle upper side; a second seal portion in close contact with the fitting portion's vehicle upper side surface; a third seal portion in close contact with a vehicle body; and a fixing portion sandwiching and fixing the protrusion between the first seal p...