ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,761, issued on April 1, was assigned to TOYO DENSO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Seat state detection apparatus" was invented by Haruhiko Tsuji (Saitama, Japan), Takuma Sumiya (Saitama, Japan) and Hiroaki Endo (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat state detection apparatus according to the present invention includes: a detecting unit configured to, in accordance with a moving operation in a front-rear direction by an operator on a seat of a vehicle, detect a moving status value representing a status of a moving mechanism that moves the seat in the front-rear direction; and a determining unit configured to determine that the moving m...