ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,176, issued on March 18, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle body lateral section structure" was invented by Kodai Baiju (Wako, Japan) and Sho Ebata (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body lateral section structure (10) is provided with a center pillar inner (41), a center pillar stiffener (42), a partitioning member (13), a filling material, a center pillar outer (43), and a sound insulation member (14). The center pillar stiffener forms a first closed cross-sectional portion (50) together with the center pillar inner. The partitioning member partitions a filling space (62) communicating with a...