ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,957, issued on July 28, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Deployable aerodynamic element for a vehicle" was invented by Pirooz Moradnia (Dublin, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deployable aerodynamic element for a vehicle includes a frame forming at least a portion of a periphery of the aerodynamic element and elastic sheeting configured to extend between the frame and a body of the vehicle. The frame is movable with respect to the body of the vehicle such that the aerodynamic element is deployable between a stowed position in which the elastic sheeting of the aerodynamic element has a first surface area and a depl...