ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,161, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to YOROZU Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing vehicle suspension arm and vehicle suspension arm" was invented by Tomo Tsuchida (Yokohama, Japan), Masahiro Igarashi (Yokohama, Japan) and Masahiro Hosoi (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Stepwise bending in the method for manufacturing a vehicle suspension arm includes a first bending step and a second bending step. In the first bending step, preliminary bending is performed while holding a portion that composes a base portion of a body portion and a portion that composes first coupling portions in a workpiece W by a punc...