ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,152, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Physical state sharable seat" was invented by Hiroyuki Kaku (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a physical state sharable seat, a sensor is configured to acquire a measurement value specific to a physical state of an occupant seated on the seat body; and a controller connected to the sensor and thereby allowed to acquire the measurement value from the sensor is configured to be capable of communicating with other equipment. The controller includes: an evaluation unit configured to compute an evaluation value on the physical state, based on the m...