ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,602, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Roof-mounted solar panel assembly for vehicles" was invented by Amitkumar B. Patil (Marysville, Ohio), Stephen D. Rosenkrantz (Columbus, Ohio), Cassandra Hodges De La Rosa (Columbus, Ohio) and Robert Reames (Raymond, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof-mounted solar panel assembly is provided. The roof-mounted solar panel assembly includes a slider component disposed at a roof molding recess area of a vehicle. The slider component has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion located at a first height from the roof molding recess area and th...