ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,742, issued on June 24, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Headrest for a passenger seat of a vehicle" was invented by Jinichi Tanabe (Tochigi, Japan), Takayoshi Ito (Tochigi, Japan), Kazumasa Narita (Tochigi, Japan), Kazuhiro Oshima (Tochigi, Japan), Nobuyuki Tezuka (Tochigi, Japan), Yasuo Inose (Tochigi, Japan), Atsushi Yamabe (Tochigi, Japan), Takashi Takahara (Tochigi, Japan), Akihiro Matsumoto (Tochigi, Japan), Akihito Kobayashi (Tochigi, Japan), Akira Kodama (Tochigi, Japan), Takako Miyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Akira Miyoshi (Tochigi, Japan) and Yoshitomo Sato (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided ...