ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,241, issued on July 8, was assigned to TOYODA IRON WORKS Co. LTD. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle strengthening member" was invented by Makoto Murai (Toyota, Japan) and Haruaki Nabeshima (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle strengthening member includes a top wall and a pair of lateral walls so that the vehicle strengthening member has a hat-shaped cross section. The vehicle strengthening member further includes a plurality of bend portions each of which is bent along a fold line extending in a transverse direction so that the vehicle strengthening member is curved as a whole. The top wall includes a recess extending in a...