ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,704, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Hiroshi Baba (Tochigi, Japan), Soichiro Kamei (Tochigi, Japan), Masashi Nakano (Tochigi, Japan), Takuya Arai (Tochigi, Japan), Ryota Urushihara (Tochigi, Japan), Masayuki Hoshi (Tochigi, Japan) and Hironori Watanabe (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle seat, a side frame of a seat back frame has a front wall that is formed so as to be bent inward continuously from a front edge of a plate-shaped portion and forms a curved region extending vertically from around the rotating shaft and reaching an upper frame, and...