US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 2 for "Bumper assembly" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,497, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Bumper assembly" was invented by Takashi Okamoto (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The bumper assembly comprises the skeleton component and a plurality of the decorative parts. The skeleton component extends from the center in the vehicle width direction to both sides. A plurality of the decorative parts are incorporated into the skeleton component. In addition, each of the decorative parts has the exposed surface. The exposed surface is part of the vehicle appearance."

The patent was filed on Dec. 29, 2023, under Application No. 18/400,610.

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