ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,316, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FERRARI S.P.A. (Modena (MO), Italy).

"Car with under-door side members" was invented by Fabrizio Favaretto (Modena, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A car has a passenger compartment, two access doors to access the passenger compartment, and a support frame, which defines a lower floor of the car, and is provided with two under-door side members, each mounted under a relative access door and defined by a section bar with an elongated shape which is longitudinally delimited by two end faces and is laterally delimited by an outer surface, and has at least one longitudinal recess, which opens ou...