ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,467, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Vehicle-body front structure including a reinforcement structure and a floor reinforcement" was invented by Yoshikazu Nishimura (Hiroshima, Japan), Yasuaki Setoh (Hiroshima, Japan), Taiki Yotsuyanagi (Hiroshima, Japan), Yoshihiro Miyamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Akiko Kawamoto (Hiroshima, Japan) and Satoshi Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body front structure includes a partition wall portion which demarcates a space inside a vehicle cabin, a motor arrangement portion which is formed by causing a part of the partition wall p...