ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,071, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).
"Vehicle-body front structure including a reinforcement structure with a rear portion mounted to a floor panel" was invented by 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 vehicle cabin inside space, a motor arrangement portion which is formed by causing a part of the partition wall portion to bulge to an...