ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,342, issued on June 10, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Seat frame" was invented by Yuichiro Yamauchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Junichi Nakayama (Yokohama, Japan), Atsuki Yoshida (Yokohama, Japan), Ryo Tanaka (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroki Hayashida (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat frame includes: a plate member; and a bar member joined to the plate member, the bar member including a planar portion on at least part of a side surface of the bar member, wherein the plate member and the bar member are joined to each other by a welded portion including a base portion configured to: extend in a longitu...