US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 15 for "Passenger protecting device of vehicle with table" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,456, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Passenger protecting device of vehicle with table" was invented by Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger protecting device of a vehicle with a table, that includes: a vehicle seat provided at a floor of a vehicle cabin; and a table provided at a vehicle front side of the vehicle seat, and having a tabletop structured so as to be able to slide toward a vehicle front side at a time of a front collision of a vehicle."

The patent was filed on June 24, 2024, under Application No. 18/751,346.

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