ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,046, issued on March 18, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.), Subaru Corp. (Tokyo) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle seat" was invented by Takayuki Asakura (Tokyo), Akihide Onodera (Tokyo), Satoshi Obara (Tokyo), Hiroshi Eguchi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroyuki Yasui (Yokohama, Japan), Nilesh Firke (Maharashtra, India), Ajeet Tasagave (Maharashtra, India) and Abhinav Chaubey (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a seat back and a cushion seat. The cushion seat includes a seat frame, a cushion pad portion above the seat frame, a first submarining suppression portion below the...