ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,297, issued on June 10, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Mounting structure for fuel storage device of vehicle" was invented by Hyung Tae Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Ho Yu (Anyang-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment mounting structure includes a rear side member having a rear end portion configured as a deformation-inducing portion, and a mounting portion configured to fix a fuel storage device to a portion in front of the deformation-inducing portion in the rear side member. An embodiment vehicle includes a vehicle body including rear side m...