ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,538, issued on June 17, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Naoya Okamoto (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Takuya Mizuno (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes: a seat main body; a lock mechanism portion that restricts a rotational operation of the seat main body; an operation portion that is operated to cause the lock mechanism portion to perform an unlock operation; a first member to which an operation force from the operation portion is transmitted; a second member that transmits the operation force toward the lock mechanism portion; and an intermediate mem...