ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,643, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Door lock assembly" was invented by Toshinori Iwatani (Mie-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door lock assembly includes a door trim including a through hole, and a locking device that is disposed on a vehicular exterior side with respect to the door trim and locks and unlocks a vehicular door. The locking device includes a lock knob holder and a door lock knob. The lock knob holder has a tubular shape and two holes at two opposite ends and one of the two holes is adjacent to the through hole and another one is an insertion hole. The door lock...