ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,781, issued on May 26, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method of manufacturing automotive body including automotive crashworthiness energy absorption part" was invented by Kazuhiko Higai (Tokyo), Tsuyoshi Shiozaki (Tokyo) and Yoshikiyo Tamai (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: manufacturing an automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part; and assembling an automotive body by attaching the manufactured automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part to the automotive body, wherein the manufacturing the automotive crashworthiness energy absorbing part includes: manufacturing a pre-coated part includin...