US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on Feb. 3 for "Vehicle exterior component and exterior structure of vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,808, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Vehicle exterior component and exterior structure of vehicle" was invented by Koji Okumura (Kiyosu, Japan), Shintaro Okawa (Kiyosu, Japan), Hirotaka Fukui (Kiyosu, Japan) and Hiroaki Ando (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle exterior component includes a light source and a cover panel that covers the light source. The cover panel includes a substrate layer, a light-blocking layer and a non-light-blocking layer arranged side by side in a planar direction, and a colored layer located outward from the light-blocking and non-light-blocki...