ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,271, issued on March 3, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure including a reinforcement structure with a rear portion mounted to a floor panel" was invented by Yoshikazu Nishimura (Hiroshima, Japan), Yasuaki Setoh (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Yoshihiro Miyamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Akiko Kawamoto (Hiroshima, Japan) and Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a vehicle cabin inside space, a motor arrangement portion which is formed by causing a part of the...