ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,293, issued on March 17, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle" was invented by Yoshinobu Yamazaki (Tokyo), Satoshi Uetake (Tokyo), Hisae Sawada (Tokyo), Yuya Aoki (Tokyo), Tokito Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Toshiaki Naruke (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a battery, a battery case accommodating the battery, and a propeller shaft extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle. The propeller shaft is covered by a propeller shaft case. An internal space of the propeller shaft case communicates with an internal space of the battery case. The vehicle is provided with at least one fire extinguishing hole co...