ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,931, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo) and NIFCO INC. (Yokosuka, Japan).
"Article supporting device" was invented by Akihiko Sato (Tokyo), Kanenori Susaki (Tokyo) and Yuhei Chinomi (Yokosuka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An article supporting device includes a main receptacle having a receptive opening for an article to be supported; and a bolt assembly having a bolt shaft and a bolt head, the bolt shaft being configured to be fixed to a vehicle body, the bolt head being combined with the main receptacle so as to be positioned in the main receptacle. The main receptacle is configured to include a recep...