ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,346, issued on May 5, was assigned to KYORAKU Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan) and HAYASHI TELEMPU Corp. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Structure" was invented by Masaaki Sueoka (Chuo-ku, Japan), Ryuichi Ishida (Chuo-ku, Japan), Takashi Imada (Chuo-ku, Japan), Katsuki Tanaka (Nagoya, Japan) and Kenta Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure usable as a luggage board or similar in a luggage compartment of a vehicle, including a resin-molded body and a torsion spring. The resin-molded body includes a front wall spaced apart from a rear wall and a peripheral wall connecting peripheries of the front and rear wall, as well as first and se...