ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,698, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Graco Children's Products Inc. (Atlanta).
"Restraining device for childcare equipment with seat" was invented by Yuji Shibata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A restraining device for childcare equipment with a seat includes: a seat body including a seat portion and a backrest portion; and a restraint belt attitude maintaining mechanism. The restraint belt attitude maintaining mechanism is supported so as to be rotatable with respect to the seat body, and has a change point at an intermediate position of its rotation range. When located on one side with respect to the change point, the res...