ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,415, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle floor carpet" was invented by Yohei Izumino (Tokyo) and Takahiro Satoh (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a vehicle floor carpet which can suppress the occurrence of bagginess without causing an increase in manufacturing cost and an increase in weight. The vehicle floor carpet includes an insulator including a non-woven sheet, a carpet body disposed on and covers an upper surface of the insulator, and a load-bearing wall which is a compressed portion of the insulator and which extends between a floor panel and the carpet body and supports the ...