US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Nov. 25 for "Center floor attachment for a vehicle" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,515, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Center floor attachment for a vehicle" was invented by Carlington George Demetrius (Dublin, Ohio), Yoshiaki Ikeda (Takanezawa-machi, Japan), Yuze Li (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroaki Taniguchi (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Yuichiro Umeda (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle floor system includes a center floor garnish, and a plurality of brackets connected to a lower surface of the center floor garnish, wherein a portion of each of the brackets extends beyond an edge of the center floor and receives a mechanical fastener that fixes the center floor to a structur...