US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on July 14 for "Bull-bar assembly with access to a vehicle component" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,298, issued on July 14, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Bull-bar assembly with access to a vehicle component" was invented by Prashant K. Deore (Canton, Mich.), Christopher P. Sheehy (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and Nora Arellano (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and other embodiments described herein relate bull-bar assemblies with an easy access latch. In one embodiment, a bull-bar assembly for a vehicle includes a panel defining a component aperture through which a vehicle component is accessible. The panel further def...