US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 1 for "Suppression of accumulated electric charges of a vehicle body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,263, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Suppression of accumulated electric charges of a vehicle body" was invented by Yuya Sekigawa (Toki, Japan) and Toshio Tanahashi (Susono, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a cover member provided in a trunk compartment of a vehicle body, and a flannel cloth arranged between an outer surface of the cover member and a rear floor panel. The flannel cloth is arranged so as to cover an entire region of the rear floor panel that faces the outer surface of the cover member."

The patent was filed on Aug. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/454...