US Patent Issued to Meyers Manx on March 31 for "Vehicle hood retention system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,811, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meyers Manx LLC (Costa Mesa, Calif.).

"Vehicle hood retention system" was invented by Ronald Lowell Anderson (Newport Beach, Calif.), Kory Kratz (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Joshua Dawson (Long Beach, Calif.), Freeman Thomas (Costa Mesa, Calif.) and Alex Townley (Anaheim, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle hood retention system for a vehicle includes a hood panel having a top surface and side walls extending downwardly from the top surface and a nose at a forward most position of the hood panel; a main body having a nose portion and configured to receive the hood panel; and a cross car ...