ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,421,768, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle" was invented by Yoshifumi Nishio (Okazaki, Japan) and Kodai Taneda (Hamamatsu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle disclosed in the present specification includes a vehicle body that has a front compartment, a radiator that is disposed in the front compartment, a radiator support upper crossmember that makes up part of the vehicle body and that also extends in a right-left direction along an upper edge of the radiator, a hood that is pivotably linked to the vehicle body and that is movable between an open position for opening the front...