ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,472, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle rear structure" was invented by Yuki Nakamura (Tokyo), Kei Ambo (Tokyo) and Kenichi Ando (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle rear structure includes a spoiler device at a rear bumper of a vehicle; a floor panel; left and right side frames at two sides of the floor panel and extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and an impact beam extending along a left-right direction of the vehicle and connected to rear ends of the left and right side frames through a connecting portion. The spoiler device includes a movable portion m...