US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Dec. 2 for "Seat belt retractor mounting structure and a vehicle body including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,848, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Seat belt retractor mounting structure and a vehicle body including the same" was invented by ChangHak Kang (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yong Won Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Joon Tak Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Il Chang Sung (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat belt retractor mounting structure for a vehicle includes a cowl cross unit arranged in the width direction of a vehicle body and includes a seat belt retractor mounted on the cowl cross unit."

The patent was filed on Nov....