US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Aug. 25 for "Vehicle skeleton structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,514, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle skeleton structure" was invented by Shinya Nagashima (Kariya, Japan), Toshiyuki Dobashi (Nagoya, Japan), Nobuyuki Shinohara (Tajimi, Japan), Mayumi Takazawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Reona Takagishi (Tajimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle skeleton structure, including: a die-cast skeleton body formed integrally and including a floor part configuring a vehicle cabin floor portion and a side member extending from the floor part towards a vehicle front or a vehicle rear; a transverse concave bead, the transverse concave bead being formed at ...