ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,767, issued on May 13, was assigned to NIPPON STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automotive structural member" was invented by Atsushi Ono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first member (110) of an automotive structural member (1) has a flange portion (111), a first member ridgeline portion (112) connected to the flange portion (111), a protruding portion (113) having a top surface (113a) which is connected to, the first member ridgeline portion (112) and is aligned with a top surface (111a) of the flange portion (111) at the same level (L), and a recessed portion (114) adjacent to the protruding portion (113). A second member (120) has a s...