ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,391, issued on March 24, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Luggage space-extensible slidable and pivotable board structure" was invented by Hong Keun Son (Uiwang, South Korea), Min Ho Cho (Suwon, South Korea), Won Young Na (Seongnam, South Korea) and Heon Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A luggage space-extensible slidable and pivotable board structure is provided. The board structure includes a board assembly configured to slide forward or backward or pivot upward about an inner side thereof in a luggage space of a vehicle, a rail section configured to ...