ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,162, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Back support device and vehicle seat" was invented by Keishiro Ito (Yokohama, Japan), Takumi Abe (Yokohama, Japan), Yosuke Ishiyama (Tokyo), Yohei Sugihira (Tokyo) and Masato Fukushima (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A back support device, comprising: a frame portion provided at a seat on which a seated person is seated, the frame portion including a locked portion at an upper portion of the frame portion; an upper frame portion fixed to the upper portion of the frame portion and extending in a seat width direction below the...