ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,228, issued on June 3, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Automobile antitheft device" was invented by Atsushi Shiota (Toyota, Japan) and Yuuji Utou (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automobile antitheft device is equipped with a seat frame installed between upper rails that are slidably supported by lower rails provided on a floor of a vehicle interior respectively, a seat cushion that is supported by the upper rails, that is configured to be able to rise and fall with respect to the upper rails, and that slides forward while falling when a cockpit is locked, and a seat back that is turnably suppo...