US Patent Issued to Lear on Nov. 25 for "Arm rest trash compartment" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,344, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Arm rest trash compartment" was invented by Lea Thomas Smith (Severna Park, Md.), Thomas Sundberg (Southfield, Mich.) and Jochen Kohlhofer (Altfraunhofen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to an arm rest trash compartment. An arm rest assembly includes an arm rest body having an A-surface with a trash cavity defined therethrough; and a trash compartment corresponding to the trash cavity. The trash compartment includes a movable member releasably secured at the A-surface, and a flexible member which forms the trash cavity. The...