ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,491, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Upper body structure for vehicle body" was invented by Won Ki Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment upper body structure for a vehicle body includes a front body configured to be mounted on a front portion of an under body of the vehicle body, the front body including front side sills respectively disposed at two opposite sides thereof based on a vehicle width direction and center pillars respectively coupled to the front side sills, each of the center pillars including a quadrangul...