ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,133, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Rear part structure of vehicle body" was invented by Yuya Akaba (Tokyo), Shungo Chino (Tokyo) and Takafumi Takayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear part structure of a vehicle body includes: a rear side frame, extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body outside a floor of a rear part of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; a front cross member, connected to a first connection part of the rear side frame and extending inward in the vehicle width direction; a rear cross member, connected to the rear side frame by a second connectio...