ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,517, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle body structure" was invented by Kazuhisa Maeda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body structure including: rockers structuring portions of vehicle transverse direction outer sides of a vehicle body lower portion; center pillars, whose lower portion at a vehicle lower side being structured to include an outer side wall portion positioned at vehicle transverse direction outer side of the rocker, and an inner side wall portion positioned at vehicle transverse direction inner side of the rocker; transverse direction supporting port...