ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,278, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Takeyuki Suzuki (Tokyo) and Kohei Okimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat including a seat that includes a seat cushion and a seat back; an inclination drive portion configured to incline the seat back; and a slide mechanism configured to enable the seat to slide in a vehicle front-rear direction, in which the slide mechanism includes: a slide rail supporting to be able to move in a sliding manner in the front-rear direction; a slide drive portion configured to enable the upper rail to slide with respect to the lo...