ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,812, issued on April 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body structure quality evaluation device and vehicle body structure quality evaluation method" was invented by Daiki Haratake (Saitama, Japan) and Kento Takaoka (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An evaluation device (1) evaluates a quality of a bumper (3) in a vehicle including a radar (2) that detects a target (T) by irradiating an outside of a vehicle body (B) with an electromagnetic wave along an optical axis and the bumper (3) that shields the radar (2). The evaluation device (1) includes an intensity parameter measurer (11) that measure...