US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America on Nov. 11 for "Artificial muscle light weight seat massager and haptic response chair" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,548, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Artificial muscle light weight seat massager and haptic response chair" was invented by Michael P. Rowe (Pinckney, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An artificial muscle chair device includes a plurality of artificial muscles embedded in a chair. Each artificial muscle includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region. A first electrode and a second electrode each disposed in the electrode region of the housing. The artificial muscle chair device further includes a dielectric fluid dispose...