US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Dec. 16 for "Holding gage assemblies for use in measuring vehicle panels" (Texas, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,116, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Holding gage assemblies for use in measuring vehicle panels" was invented by Christopher J. MacDonald (Lexington, Ky.) and Miguel R. Hernandez (San Antonio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of supporting vehicle panel assemblies of different lengths for a measuring operation using a coordinate measurement machine is provided. The method includes supporting a first vehicle panel assembly having a first length on a holding gage assembly comprising horizontally aligned datum l...