US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 30 for "Rear structure for a vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,062, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rear structure for a vehicle" was invented by Sung Hun Kim (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Sung Woo Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Ju Woong Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rear structure of a vehicle includes: a rear floor, and a pair of diagonal members coupled to a bottom surface of the rear floor, extending obliquely from both sides of the rear floor to a rear side of the rear floor, and symmetrical with respect to a longitudinal centerline of the rear floor. The rear structure fu...