ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,487, issued on June 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle side portion structure" was invented by Koichi Suga (Toyota Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle side portion structure includes: a guide groove portion that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction at a side portion of a vehicle body, and that guides a sliding door so as to be capable of sliding; a door side groove portion that is formed at the sliding door, and that extends so as to be continuous with the guide groove portion in the vehicle front-rear direction in a closed state of the sliding door, and a rear camera that is...