ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,734, issued on May 13, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Seat" was invented by Hiroyuki Kaku (Tochigi, Japan), Atsushi Kusano (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroyuki Numajiri (Tochigi, Japan), Satoshi Fujita (Tochigi, Japan), Takako Miyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Munetaka Kowa (Tochigi, Japan), Ryuichiro Hirose (Tochigi, Japan), Yoshikazu Ito (Tochigi, Japan), Yosuke Higashi (Tochigi, Japan), Satoshi Suzuki (Tochigi, Japan), Ryosuke Sato (Tochigi, Japan), Kento Uetake (Tochigi, Japan), Yasuharu Otsuka (Tochigi, Japan) and Satoru Kaneda (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a seat including: sensors which include...