US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on Sept. 1 for "Lower body structure of vehicle" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,531, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Lower body structure of vehicle" was invented by Shota Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower body structure of a vehicle includes: a left and right pair of left seat rails and a left and right pair of right seat rails configured to make left and right seats of a second-row seat independently slidable; a first cross member including securing portions to which the left seat rails and the right seat rails are secured; a second cross member disposed apart from the first cross member in a vehicle fore-and-aft direction; and a first c...