ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,152, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NHK SPRING Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Yukinori Mikita (Yokohama, Japan), Kensuke Yoshiga (Yokohama, Japan), Jun Shirai (Tokyo), Fumito Kitanaka (Tokyo) and Masafumi Takano (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a hinge cover and a reclining lever. The hinge cover is disposed at a side portion of a seat cushion, and has an opening through which a recliner shaft of a recliner provided between the seat cushion and a seat back passes. The reclining lever is disposed at an outer side in a seat width direction with respec...