US Patent Issued to TOYODA GOSEI on Sept. 1 for "Parting seal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,465, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYODA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Parting seal" was invented by Shoya Yukita (Kiyosu, Japan), Masatoshi Nojiri (Kiyosu, Japan) and Yasuhiro Shimizu (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a parting seal that seals a gap between a front door and a rear door, one end of a seal portion, including a substantially arc shape, and one end of a mounting base, including a substantially L shape, are connected by a connecting portion, the seal portion and the mounting base are formed of a material with higher hardness compared to the connecting portion, and a seal-portion distal end of...