ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,915, issued on June 30, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).

"Joined body and manufacturing method for metal member used for same joined body" was invented by Yuya Takahashi (Kariya-city, Japan), Fumio Kawanishi (Kariya-city, Japan), Tsuyoshi Hayakawa (Kariya-city, Japan), Tomohiko Takenaka (Kariya-city, Japan), Kazuki Koda (Kariya-city, Japan) and Hideaki Shirai (Kariya-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This joined body includes a metal member having a joining surface with depressions formed therein and a resin member that is joined to the metal member at the joining surface. The joined body includes an interse...