US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on June 23 for "Vehicle body rear structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,198, issued on June 23, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle body rear structure" was invented by Masayasu Yoshida (Wako, Japan), Satoru Kawabe (Wako, Japan), Hiroyo Miyanaga (Wako, Japan), Yasunori Watanabe (Wako, Japan) and Hisashi Suzuki (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body rear structure has a rear floor panel, a rear panel, a rear bumper beam and a plurality of floor reinforcement portions. The rear bumper beam extends along a vehicle width direction in a central region in the vehicle width direction at a rear portion of the rear panel and has a length in the vehicle width direction shorte...