ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,676, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Sumitomo Riko Co. Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Sensor-equipped seat" was invented by Hirokazu Yamamoto (Aichi, Japan), Koichi Hasegawa (Aichi, Japan) and Masaru Murayama (Aichi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor-equipped seat (1) is provided with a seating-surface seat cushion (10) that comprises: a first seating-surface seat cushion (12) having an accommodation recess (80); and a second seating-surface seat cushion (15) which is accommodated within the accommodation recess (80). Disposed between a first pressing surface (82b) of the accommodation recess (80) in the first seating-surface...