US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 31 for "Vehicle including a-pillar garnish extending into airflow gap and underneath hood" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,702, issued on March 31, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle including a-pillar garnish extending into airflow gap and underneath hood" was invented by Douglas Kaltenmark (Powell, Ohio) and Timothy J. Rupp (Dublin, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle can include a windshield, an A-pillar that is adjacent to the windshield, a hood that is adjacent to the A-pillar and spaced away from the A-pillar by an airflow gap, and an A-pillar garnish. The A-pillar garnish can extend along the windshield and cover at least a portion of the A-pillar. The A-pillar garnish can extend underneath the hood and bend away fro...