US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 14 for "Vehicle floor joints" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,410, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Vehicle floor joints" 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 floor garnish disposed in a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the floor garnish comprises a first peripheral edge, and a center floor disposed in the cabin area of the vehicle, the center floor comprising a second peripheral edge, wherein the second peripheral edge is on the first peripheral...