US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 21 for "Rear facing seat mounting partition structure" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,057, issued on April 21, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Rear facing seat mounting partition structure" was invented by Joonghyun Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Won Ki Song (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Heedae Oh (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a rear facing seat mounting partition structure includes a partition assembly configured to mount a rear facing seat that is disposed toward a rear of a vehicle body, the partition assembly including a partition outer portion connected to a center pillar portion of the vehicle body, a parti...