ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,385, issued on June 2, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure including reinforcement members" was invented by Kota Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure for an electric vehicle includes a front-side battery frame which extends in a vehicle width direction, a pair of left and right side frames and which extend forward from the front-side battery frame, a cross member between the left and right side frames and, and reinforcement members and which extend toward vehicle rear from the cross member toward the front-side battery frame."

The paten...