ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,520,946, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Chair, control method, and storage medium" was invented by Tadashi Odashima (Seto, Japan) and Tomio Ikeda (Toyota, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The chair of the present disclosure includes a base, a seating surface positioned on the upper side of the base and seated by a user, a base and a seating surface are connected, a seating surface is maintained in a reference state, and a seating surface is inclined from the reference state in accordance with a force applied to the seating surface by the seating of the user in accordance with the reference st...