ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,626, issued on March 11, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Movement adjustment system" was invented by Hiroshi Yogo (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to suppress a claustrophobic feeling that a person sitting on a rear seat receives due to a front seat, and to make the front seat easy to use as an ottoman by the person, a movement adjustment system is used for a passenger seat and a rear seat, and includes a slide rail for moving the rear seat in the front to back direction, and a control part for changing the movement region of the rear seat by the slide rail. The passenger seat has a seat cush...