ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,942, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Aoyama Seisakusho Co. LTD. (Niwa-gun, Japan).
"Striker" was invented by Naoki Hoshino (Aichi, Japan), Kazuhiro Koga (Aichi, Japan), Yuichi Hiroi (Aichi, Japan), Keiichiro Masui (Aichi, Japan) and Mai Uchide (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hood striker 1 includes: a plate-shaped base 2 for fixation to a hood of an automobile; a rod-shaped screw member 3 in which a male thread portion 12 is formed at a distal end side, the rod-shaped screw member 3 being disposed perpendicular to a plate surface of the base 2; and an L-shaped hook 4 in which an inserting portion 19 to be slidably i...