ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,129, issued on July 1, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Seat control system and method for setting driving posture" was invented by Tomonori Ohtsubo (Hiroshima, Japan), Hiroki Uemura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yoshito Hirata (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control system for setting a driving posture and a seat control method is provided, in which body shape information indicating a body shape is input. Posture range information corresponding to the input body shape information is extracted from body shape posture range correspondence information, in which the body shape information and postur...