US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on May 26 for "Applique attachment on casting" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,159, issued on May 26, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Applique attachment on casting" was invented by Taiga Marukawa (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Gilberto Larrache-Irizarry (Delaware, Ohio), Douglas M. Dafler (Delaware, Ohio), Patrick J. Ellison (Plain City, Ohio), Kosaku Tomozawa (Wako, Japan), Keiichiro Tsuji (Novi, Mich.), Takashi Nakano (Utsunomiya, Japan) and Anthony John Leanza (Powell, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle and related method include, at each corner of the vehicle, a module including a cast frame configured to mount on a corner component of the autonomous vehicle, and an applique...