ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,195, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).

"Assembled body" was invented by Munechika Okita (Nisshin, Japan) and Ryohsuke Yamamoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembled body includes: a back door of a vehicle, the back door including an internal space; a subwoofer attached to the back door, a front face of the subwoofer being oriented to the outside of the back door, a back face of the subwoofer being oriented to an internal space side of the back door; and an exciter attached to the back door, the exciter generating an output for cancelling vibrati...