US Patent Issued to Subaru on Nov. 3 for "Protective structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,317, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Subaru Corp. (Tokyo).

"Protective structure" was invented by Kentaro Kamei (Tokyo), Yoshio Wada (Tokyo) and Hisayuki Nagatsu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective structure includes a first bracket and a second bracket. The first bracket includes a first fixing portion protruding toward an upper side of a vehicle. The second bracket is placed on the first fixing portion of the first bracket in a state of being divided from the first bracket and covers a protection target part to be protected from interference of a collision object in a vehicle up and down direction. The second bracke...