US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 14 for "Front subframe mounted recovery hook" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,151, issued on July 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Front subframe mounted recovery hook" was invented by Kishan Chand Kari (Delaware, Ohio), Stephen G. Rosepiler (Marysville, Ohio), Steven Matthew Harpster (Dublin, Ohio), Rajendra L. Kakarla (Plain City, Ohio), Bradley W. Klein (Columbus, Ohio) and Amol Gaikwad (Plain City, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recovery hook assembly including a recovery hook fastened to a vehicle frame by a vertically oriented fastener and a horizontally oriented fastener, which connect the recovery hook to the vehicle at three connection points. When the recovery hook is pulled ...