ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,524, issued on March 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle rear portion structure" was invented by Yasunori Watanabe (Wako, Japan), Satoru Kawabe (Wako, Japan), Masayasu Yoshida (Wako, Japan) and Atsushi Hasegawa (Wako, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a center frame that is disposed closer to a center portion of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction than both side portions of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, that is disposed on a rear side in the vehicle, and that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a bumper beam that is disposed on a re...