ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,800, issued on June 10, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Heater device" was invented by Yusuke Tanaka (Kariya, Japan), Hideki Seki (Kariya, Japan) and Kimitake Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater device for heating an user's body seated on a seat includes a heat generating portion that is arranged in a recess recessed from a surface of the seat, and generates heat by energization, a distance detection unit that detects a distance between an object around the heat generating portion and the heat generating portion, and a control unit that controls energization of the heat generating portion. A ...