ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,527, issued on May 12, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure including a cross member" was invented by Kota Yoshida (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Takehiro Kamei (Hiroshima, Japan), Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Takayuki Kimura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a front-side battery frame which is provided in a front of the battery casing, a pair of left and right side frames which extend from the front-side battery frame toward vehicle front to be positioned on vehicle-width-direction outer sides to...