ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,642, issued on March 11, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicular front structure" was invented by Hirotaka Ishioka (Toyota, Japan), Hideo Takeda (Hekinan, Japan) and Norimasa Koreishi (Miyoshi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular front structure includes: a left front pillar disposed at a left front face of a body of a vehicle; a right front pillar disposed at a right front face of the body; an upper front crossing member extending along a lateral direction of the vehicle, the upper front crossing member having respective ends coupled one-to-one with the left front pillar and the right front pill...