US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor, Marelli on Sept. 29 for "Armrest for vehicle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,863, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and Marelli Co. Ltd. (Saitama-city, Japan).

"Armrest for vehicle" was invented by Emiko Ono (Kanagawa, Japan), Yuuki Abe (Kanagawa, Japan), Mamoru Ueda (Kanagawa, Japan), Makoto Saito (Saitama-city, Japan) and Kota Uetake (Saitama-city, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle armrest includes an opening/closing body, a switch knob and an operation transmission mechanism. The opening/closing body opens and closes an upper side of a storage section. The switch knob is configured to open the opening/closing body. The operation transmission mechanism...