US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle front portion structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,962, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle front portion structure" was invented by Shuichi Aso (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front portion structure includes: a bumper reinforcement that extends substantially in a vehicle width direction at a front portion of a vehicle; an absorber that is provided at a vehicle front side of the bumper reinforcement, and that includes a notch portion forming, together with a front wall of the bumper reinforcement, a through hole that penetrates in a vehicle vertical direction; a lower grille that is provided at a bumper cover at a ...