ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,134, issued on July 1, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Seat rotating device" was invented by Takuya Mizuno (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Sadao Ito (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat rotating device capable of achieving both of suppression of floating of a rotating plate from a seat slider and positioning in a front-rear direction of the rotating plate at a seating position is provided. The seat rotating device includes a seat slider including a lower rail and an upper rail, a base plate, a rotating plate including a belt anchor bracket, a coupling unit, a restriction portion, a fixing member, and...