US Patent Issued to SUBARU on July 28 for "Vehicle rear gate panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,692,730, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle rear gate panel" was invented by Kenichi Araki (Tokyo), Akihisa Nomura (Tokyo) and Yuhei Suda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle rear gate panel includes a vehicle body panel that constitutes a rear gate panel, a first ratchet opening that is provided in the vehicle body panel and through which a ratchet mechanism is inserted, a first handle opening that is provided in the vehicle body panel at a position aligned with the first ratchet opening in a vehicle width direction and through which a pull handle is inserted, and a bracket that integrally reinf...