ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,313, issued on June 30, 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 toe board including an upper toe board and a lower toe board joined to each other with a vehicle lower-side edge of the upper toe board overlapping a vehicle upper-side edge of the lower toe board; main frames provided on opposite sides of the vehicle-body front part in a vehicle width direction and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and front pillars extending in a vehicle up-down direction on opposite outer sides of the t...