US Patent Issued to SUBARU on Dec. 30 for "Seat" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,954, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seat" was invented by Naomichi Sawada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat includes a seat surface member, a seat back, a rigidity changer, a steering operation prediction unit, and a rigidity change controller. On the seat surface member, a waist and thighs of an occupant who is to perform steering operation on a vehicle are to be placed. The seat back is configured to abut on a back of the occupant. A rigidity changer is configured to change rigidity of a part of the seat back abutting on the vicinity of shoulder blades of the occupant. A steering operation pred...