ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,220, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Kensuke Yoshiga (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroki Jineda (Yokohama, Japan), Kenji Nagumo (Tokyo), Fumito Kitanaka (Tokyo) and Mitsutoshi Saito (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion having an upward and downward movement mechanism configured to adjust a position of the seat cushion in a range between an upper most position and a lower most position in a seat vertical direction; and a shielding member configured to bend, and shielding a lower side of the seat cushion. The ...