ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,208, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Seat back table" was invented by Norihiro Matsubara (Toyota, Japan), Hiroharu Iizuka (Toyota, Japan), Keisuke Toyota (Toyota, Japan) and Masaru Tsujiguchi (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat back table attached to a rear surface of a seat back of an in-vehicle seat includes a base plate fixed to the rear surface of the seat back, and a table plate that is opened and closed by swinging with respect to the base plate, and, in this seat back table, a gap to which a fingertip can be inserted is provided between at least a portion of a periphera...