ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,817, issued on May 27, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).
"Conveyance seat" was invented by Jinichi Tanabe (Tochigi, Japan), Tatsuki Nonaka (Tochigi, Japan) and Atsushi Yamabe (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a conveyance seat equipped with a side airbag device with which an airbag can be inflation-deployed in a more stable state. The conveyance seat includes a seat back and a side airbag device attached to a side portion of the seat back. The seat back includes a back frame having a side frame and a side support member attached to the front part of the side frame and protruding to the seat f...