ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,566, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Vehicular lighting structure" was invented by Mitsuhiko Takeshige (Nagakute, Japan) and Isao Shinagawa (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular lighting structure includes a finisher that has a plate shape extending in an upper-bottom direction and a vehicular width direction and is disposed at a rear end of a luggage compartment and includes a lighting hole, a lighting device disposed on a vehicular exterior side of the finisher and supplying light to an inner space of the luggage compartment t...