ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,186, issued on July 1, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Jun Aoki (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoya Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan), Yosuke Ishiyama (Tokyo), Kota Morishima (Tokyo) and Taiki Ono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes: an anchor member, a buckle apparatus, a cushion pad provided with a buckle accommodation cavity, a wire disposed so as to encircle the buckle accommodation cavity and supporting the cushion pad, and a rotation suppression member. The buckle apparatus includes: a coupling member, one end of which is coupled to the anch...