US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on June 30 for "Rocker structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,309, issued on June 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Rocker structure" was invented by Kazuhisa Maeda (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocker structure includes: a pair of front-side members respectively provided at each side, in a vehicle width direction, of a vehicle lower portion at a vehicle front side, and each front-side member extending in a vehicle front-rear direction and forming a closed cross-sectional structure; a pair of rear-side members, a front end portion of each rear-side member being inserted into a respective one of the front-side members, and each rear-side member extending...