US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Aug. 18 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,144, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle" was invented by Hiroyuki Ozawa (Tokyo), Yuya Furusaki (Tokyo), Masaji Sawa (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Shibata (Tokyo) and Masaki Takahashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes: a front side frame; a front subframe; a first fixing portion fixing the front subframe and the front side frame with a first bolt; a battery pack; a first bracket coupling the battery pack and the front side frame; a second fixing portion fixing the first bracket to the front side frame with a second bolt; and a third fixing portion fixing the first bracket to the batter...