US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on April 21 for "Vehicle rear structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,245, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle rear structure" was invented by Yuta Egawa (Okazaki, Japan), Hiroki Hashimoto (Toyota, Japan) and Hiroyuki Manjo (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle rear structure has a rear assembly, a floor cross member disposed at a rear end of a floor panel and extending from an inside edge of the rear assembly to a floor tunnel opening edge, and a reinforcement member extending from the floor cross member diagonally outward and rearward and connected to an inner side surface of the rear assembly. The rear assembly is an integrally-cast...