ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,306, issued on April 14, was assigned to FAURECIA INTERIEUR INDUSTRIE (Nanterre, France).

"Door assembly with assembled support part and upper part" was invented by Vicente Mallent Bertolin (San Antonio de Benageber, Spain) and Pramod Mathew John (Bhosari Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door assembly for a vehicle that includes a support part and a top part mounted on the support part. One of the support part and of the upper part has a welding hole, and the other has a welding boss inserted into the welding hole along a direction of welding. The support part has at least one snap-fit slot. The upper part has at least o...