ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,017, issued on Feb. 11, 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 that includes an upper rail and a lower rail and supporting the seat to be able to move in a sliding manner in the front-rear direction, a slide drive portion configure...