US Patent Issued to TOYOTA BOSHOKU, UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA on June 24 for "Rocking device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,639, issued on June 24, was assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Aichi, Japan) and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA (Ibaraki, Japan).

"Rocking device and control method" was invented by Yasuhiro Kato (Aichi, Japan), Akio Shimizu (Aichi, Japan), Takahiro Harita (Aichi, Japan) and Takashi Abe (Ibaraki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rocking device includes: a seat which supports a body of a user; a motor which rotates a rotation shaft in a first rotation direction and in a second rotation direction that is a rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, and thereby supplies motive power for rocking the seat via a gear attached ...