ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,352, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA GOSEI Co. LTD. (Aichi-pref., Japan).

"Vehicle exterior part" was invented by Risa Hirano (Kiyosu, Japan), Hiroko Shibakawa (Kiyosu, Japan), Norifumi Hattori (Kiyosu, Japan), Koji Okumura (Kiyosu, Japan), Hideto Maeda (Kiyosu, Japan), Yutaka Otsuka (Kiyosu, Japan), Keisuke Nishioka (Kiyosu, Japan) and Kazuyoshi Fujimoto (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle exterior part is configured to be arranged frontward of a millimeter wave radar device with respect to the transmission direction of millimeter waves. The vehicle exterior part includes an ornamental body, a light sourc...