ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,607, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Conveyance seat" was invented by Akira Miyoshi (Tochigi, Japan), Munetaka Kowa (Tochigi, Japan), Yoichi Tachikawa (Tochigi, Japan), Kohei Taguchi (Tochigi, Japan), Tomoyuki Kurimoto (Tochigi, Japan), Hiroaki Hashizume (Tochigi, Japan), Keisuke Mizuno (Tochigi, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kaku (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conveyance seat includes a seat cushion having a urethane pad member, a bead foam molding member harder than the urethane pad member, a skin material, and a seating sensor sensing a seated occupant's seating load, in which the ureth...