ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,567, issued on May 20, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle skeleton structure" was invented by Hiroyuki Kurokawa (Nisshin, Japan) and Koichiro Ueno (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle skeleton structure includes: a support surface portion that configures a part of a vehicle body, the support surface portion being disposed further toward a vehicle lower side than a design surface of a roof portion of the vehicle body, and the support surface portion being configured to support a communication device from a vehicle lower side of the communication device; and a roof reinforcement that is dis...