ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,165, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle front structure" was invented by Takehiro Kondo (Tokyo), Yosuke Shoji (Tokyo) and Wataru Tsuboi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle front structure includes: a front side-frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; and a lower member extending in the vehicle front-rear direction at a position outer in a vehicle width direction than the front side-frame, wherein a front end of the front side-frame and a front end of the lower member are coupled with each other, an outer end in the vehicle width direction of the front side-frame is incline...