ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,365, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China) and GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NINGBO) Co. LTD. (Ningbo, China).

"Automobile" was invented by Min Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Kaihong Dai (Hangzhou, China), Wei Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Hongbin Ran (Hangzhou, China), Weilong Ling (Hangzhou, China), Yali Qiu (Hangzhou, China) and Shujian Zhang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an automobile, including a vehicle body and a rearview system. A vehicle cabin is provided inside the vehicle body, the vehicle body includes a roof and a tailgate directly connected ...