ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,163, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Seat bracket structure" was invented by Yuki Muramatsu (Tokyo) and Kota Fujisawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The seat bracket structure has a floor cross member linking a side sill and a floor tunnel of a vehicle to each other and a plurality of seat brackets disposed frontward and rearward of the floor cross member in a vehicle front-rear direction and linked to the side sill or the floor tunnel and to the floor cross member. The seat brackets each include a main body portion that forms a hollow section with a floor panel as a bottom surface and is spac...