ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,229, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Sound absorbing member mount assembly" was invented by Takenori Kohama (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Akira Fujisawa (Gifu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound absorbing member mount assembly includes a vehicular interior component and a sound absorbing member. The vehicular interior component includes a protrusion and the protrusion protrudes from a vehicular exterior side surface of the vehicular interior component and includes a support portion having a flat surface. The sound absorbing member is disposed on the vehicular interior component and inclu...