ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,886, issued on May 27, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle center console" was invented by Hiroyasu Taniguchi (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Yamamoto (Wako, Japan), Toshinori Tsukagoshi (Wako, Japan) and Michihiro Hoshijima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center console includes an article placement portion, a front block portion, a rear block portion, a bridge portion, a rearward projection portion, and a finger insertion acceptance surface. The article placement portion has a placement surface on which an article having a rectangular plate shape is capable of being placed. The front block portion is arranged at a forw...