US Patent Issued to NIFCO on Sept. 1 for "Camera bracket" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,580, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NIFCO INC. (Yokosuka, Japan).

"Camera bracket" was invented by Pascal Makito Chartrand (Yokosuka, Japan) and Shinzo Watanabe (Yokosuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A camera bracket made of a resin containing reinforcing fibers includes: a plate-shaped base portion disposed along a vehicle inner side face of a window panel; a lens hood portion recessed from the base portion in a direction opposite to the window panel, forming a view space between the lens hood portion and the window panel; and a lens hole formed in the base portion to communicate with the view space. A plurality of firs...