ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,412, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Lower vehicle-body structure" was invented by Atsushi Maruyama (Tokyo), Kota Fujisawa (Tokyo) and Yuki Muramatsu (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower vehicle-body structure includes: a floor cross member coupling a side sill disposed on an outer side in a vehicle width direction of a vehicle body to a floor tunnel disposed in a center in the vehicle width direction of the vehicle body; seat brackets disposed to have the floor cross member therebetween in a vehicle front-rear direction at both ends in the vehicle width direction of the floor cross member, ...