US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 3 for "Rear part structure of vehicle body" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,272, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Rear part structure of vehicle body" was invented by Yuya Akaba (Tokyo), Shungo Chino (Tokyo), Toshihiro Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Takafumi Takayama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear part structure of a vehicle body includes: a rear side frame, extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body on an outside of a floor of a rear part of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and a wheelhouse, arranged outside the rear side frame in the vehicle width direction. At least a portion of an outer wall of the rear side frame in the vehicle width direc...