ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,979, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Rear structure of vehicle" was invented by Wataru Tsuboi (Tokyo), Hirotaka Hayakawa (Tokyo) and Shinjiro Yoshida (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear structure of vehicle includes: a rear wheel cover; a rear side vehicle frame, provided on a lower side in a vehicle up and down direction of the rear wheel cover, a rear side inner panel, provided on an outer side in a vehicle-width-direction of the rear wheel cover; and an outrigger, extending from the rear side vehicle frame toward the outer side in the vehicle-width-direction and joining with a rear side...