US Patent Issued to Subaru on Aug. 18 for "Vehicle-body front structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,709,333, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle-body front structure" was invented by Akihiro Maeda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a motor unit, main frames, a strut tower reinforcement, a motor support beam, and a support beam bracket. The motor unit drives a vehicle. The main frames are provided on vehicle-widthwise opposite sides and extend in a vehicle front-rear direction. The strut tower reinforcement extends in a vehicle up-down direction on a vehicle front side of a strut tower. The motor support beam is fixed, on its vehicle lower side, with the motor unit...