ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,269, issued on March 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle body structure" was invented by Kazuhisa Maeda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body structure includes: a front pillar lower member configuring a portion, at a vehicle lower side, of a front pillar that configures a portion, at a vehicle front side, of a vehicle body, a cross-section of the front pillar lower member seen from a vehicle up-down direction having a closed cross-section; a front pillar upper member disposed at a vehicle upper side of the front pillar lower member, and the front pillar upper member configuring a p...