ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,411, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle front part structure" was invented by Kosuke Arita (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front part structure includes a pair of left and right suspension towers, and a pair of left and right front side members disposed at vehicle lower sides of the suspension towers and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and is integrally molded by die casting. The front side member has plural compartments arranged internally in the vehicle front-rear direction, and has plural convex parts, protruding outward on progression toward t...