ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,542, issued on June 17, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Vehicle seat armrest" was invented by Kazuhito Kato (Yokohama, Japan), Kousuke Suzuki (Yokohama, Japan) and Chikanori Honda (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The armrest of a vehicle seat is provided with a first armrest and a second armrest. The first armrest includes a first end portion rotatably supported by a side portion of a seatback, and selectively adopts a not-in-use position in which the first armrest is positioned so as to extend toward a seat upper side at the seatback side portion, and an in-use position in which the first armre...