ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,228, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle cabin partition structure" was invented by Norimasa Koreishi (Miyoshi, Japan), Hideo Takeda (Hekinan, Japan) and Hitoshi Takezoe (Seto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The window frame member has a horizontal bar shape, disposed between the upper window panel and the lower window panel and supports a lower end of the upper window panel and an upper end of the lower window panel. The window frame member has opposite longitudinal ends fixed to a B pillar and a C pillar, vertical pillars of the vehicle cabin, respectively. The seat cross member al...