ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,414, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LEGGETT & PLATT CANADA Co. (Halifax, Canada).

"Interactive adjustable seat with multiple modes of operation" was invented by Stefano Nicola (Windsor, Canada), Laura Romesburg (Spring Lake, Mich.), Katherine Arthurs (Windsor, Canada), Maxime Samain (Harelbeke, Belgium), Renato Colja (Windsor, Canada) and Kaushik Ray (Windsor, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatic seat adjustment, the systems and methods including a seat frame, a plurality of seat cushions coupled to the seat frame, a plurality of adjustable bladders enclosed within the plurality of seat cushions, ...