US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, Kia on July 14 for "Reinforcement structure for rear seat interim portion" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,259, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Reinforcement structure for rear seat interim portion" was invented by Mincheol Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Changuk Ha (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea) and KeonWoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reinforcement structure for a rear seat interim portion includes a side member disposed outside a width direction of a vehicle body, a battery case mounted on a rear floor panel, and an upper transverse direction reinforcement connected to a lower portion of the rear floor panel, an outer end there...