ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,998, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Body-size class specification device, body-size class specification method, driving-position setting device, and driving-position setting method" was invented by Kosuke Noguchi (Aki-gun, Japan), Yoshito Hirata (Aki-gun, Japan), Hiroki Uemura (Aki-gun, Japan) and Tomonori Ohtsubo (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body-size class specification device of the present invention comprises a class feature-quantity information memorizing section to memorize class feature-quantity information to correlate plural classes for classifying a body size ...