US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 2 for "Vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,853, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Vehicle" was invented by Yuuki Mukaigawa (Seto, Japan), Naoki Tani (Nagoya, Japan), Ryuma Osaka (Toyota, Japan), Shungo Iizuka (Toyota, Japan), Shunji Shibata (Anjo, Japan), Kyohei Miyaoka (Ikeda, Japan), Masanori Kodera (Toyota, Japan) and Takashi Iwasaki (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle may include a vehicle body including a floor panel, a battery pack located below the floor panel and an energy absorption member located outwardly from the battery pack in a vehicle width direction and fixing the battery pack to the vehicle body. ...