US Patent Issued to Toyoda Gosei on Feb. 18 for "Vehicle weather strip for liquid drainage and prevention of liquid intrusion into vehicle interior" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,060, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Vehicle weather strip for liquid drainage and prevention of liquid intrusion into vehicle interior" was invented by Michael Christopher Pelic (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), Timothy Deitrick Wilson (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Sherri Ann Tregoning (Livonia, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weather strip for a vehicle door includes a flow channel extending along at least a portion of the weather strip. A discharge portion is in fluid communication with the flow channel and is structured to enable a liquid to flow therealong from the flow channel to a loc...