US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on July 28 for "Vehicle front part structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,831, issued on July 28, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle front part structure" was invented by Keisuke Furutani (Hiroshima, Japan), Kozo Ishizuka (Hiroshima, Japan), Hideaki Fujii (Hiroshima, Japan), Ai Hiraiwa (Hiroshima, Japan) and Misaki Muguruma (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front structure prevents unintentional package movement during travel while allowing access to a trunk from a vehicle cabin side. Embodiments include a vehicle having a front trunk, a glove box, and a communication portion. The front trunk has a housing space at a front of the vehicle to house a packa...