ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,575, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Vehicle-body structure with controller" was invented by Takuma Inami (Hiroshima, Japan), Nobuyuki Nakayama (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroyuki Baba (Hiroshima, Japan) and Hiroshi Tanaka (Hiroshima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle-body structure may include a floor panel constituting a floor of an occupant space, a center frame disposed to be higher than and away from the floor panel at a vehicle-width-direction central portion of the occupant space and extending in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a control device configured to control a contr...