US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 23 for "Vehicle exterior structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,063, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle exterior structure" was invented by Sho Arai (Nagoya, Japan) and Yoshiaki Miyazaki (Nagakute, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decorating part is provided near a boundary between a front fender panel and a front door panel. For example, the decorating part is provided at a front end in a vehicle longitudinal direction of the front door panel. The decorating part is a member extending in a vehicle vertical direction. For example, the decorating part has a color darker than the color of the front fender panel and the front door panel."

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