US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 19 for "Vehicle with a camera to capture an image of an external environment" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,993, issued on May 19, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle with a camera to capture an image of an external environment" was invented by Eitaro Miyanari (Tokyo), Naoyuki Koguchi (Tokyo) and Makoto Tsukagoshi (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a front window and a camera disposed on a cabin side of the front window to capture an image of an external environment through the front window. The front window includes: a first window panel fitted into a window frame of a vehicle body; and a second window panel formed as a separate member from the first window panel and disposed in an area inc...