ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,366, issued on May 20, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Vehicle seat and vehicle seat manufacturing method" was invented by Yoichi Tachikawa (Tochigi, Japan), Kohei Taguchi (Tochigi, Japan), Tsukasa Meguro (Tochigi, Japan) and Yoshihiro Tomita (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a base provided on a floor; a seat back pivotably provided on the base; a seat cushion pivotably provided on the seat back; and a reclining drive unit connected to the base and the seat back to make the seat back pivot relative to the base, wherein the reclining drive unit is disposed more rearward than a fr...