US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle skeleton structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,707, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle skeleton structure" was invented by Shinya Nagashima (Kariya, Japan), Toshiyuki Dobashi (Nagoya, Japan), Nobuyuki Shinohara (Tajimi, Japan), Mayumi Takazawa (Okazaki, Japan) and Reona Takagishi (Tajimi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle skeleton structure, including: a die-cast skeleton body formed integrally and including a floor part configuring a vehicle cabin floor portion and a side member disposed at both sides, in a vehicle width direction, of the floor part and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a severance origin ...