ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,862, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Atsushi Yamanaka (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle is provided with a shock absorber arranged along a side of a housing space for a battery pack of the vehicle, and a reinforcing member for reinforcing a lower surface of an enclosure of the battery pack of the vehicle, the reinforcing member being disposed at a bottom of the housing space for the battery pack of the vehicle, in which the reinforcing member has a section protruding from the housing space for the battery pack, the side surface of the reinforcing me...