ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,945, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Aichi-pref., Japan).
"Seat heater and seat air-conditioning device" was invented by Hironobu Murakami (Kariya, Japan), Shuji Ito (Kariya, Japan) and Naoto Goto (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat heater is installed between a seat pad that is a member supporting a load from a seated person sitting on a seat and has a plurality of ventilation holes through which the air generated by a blower flows is formed on a surface on a side of the seated person and a covering that covers a surface of the seat pad and has breathability. The seat heater includes a thin plate-lik...