US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on July 15 for "Seat with neck support" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,409, issued on July 15, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Seat with neck support" was invented by Kelly M Whalen (Worthington, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neck support system includes a seat having a seatback and a headrest positioned on an upper portion of the seatback. A neck bolster is movable from a stowed position to a deployed position. In the deployed position, the neck bolster provides neck support for the occupant of the seat. The seat has a cavity accessible between the seatback and the headrest, and the neck bolster fits in the cavity in the stowed position. When the neck bolster is in the stowed pos...