US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 14 for "Vehicle lower body structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,470, issued on July 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle lower body structure" was invented by Kazuhisa Maeda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle lower body structure includes: a left and right pair of rockers provided on respective sides, in a vehicle width direction, of a vehicle lower body and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a left and right pair of front side members provided at a front side, in a vehicle front-rear direction, of the rockers and extending in the vehicle front-rear direction; a cross member extending in the vehicle width direction, interconnecting front...