ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,953, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIDEC MOBILITY Corp. (Aichi, Japan).
"Seat control device and seat control method" was invented by Yota Katayama (Aichi, Japan), Koji Ozawa (Aichi, Japan) and Hidekazu Imai (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control device is configured to control an operation of an electric seat including a seat portion and a backrest portion. The seat control device includes: a first control unit configured to control an operation of the seat portion; a second control unit configured to control an operation of the backrest portion; and a pinching detection unit. In a case in which the pinchin...