ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,015, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Seat rotating device" was invented by Sadao Ito (Anjo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This seat rotating device is a seat rotating device that rotates a seat body between a seating position where the seat body faces front of a vehicle and a getting-on and -off position where the seat body faces an opening of a door of the vehicle. The seat rotating device includes a base plate fixed to a floor side of the vehicle, a turn frame arranged above the base plate and fixed to a lower surface of the seat body so as not to rotate relatively to the seat body...