ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,306, issued on July 21, was assigned to Archem Inc. (Tokyo).
"Seat pad and seat pad manufacturing method" was invented by Satoshi Ienaga (Tokyo), Toshimitsu Shinohara (Tokyo), Yoshiyuki Takahashi (Tokyo) and Yukiko Yamaguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat pad (302) includes a fitting member (51) having a fitting portion (510) and a fitted member (52) having a fitted portion (520) configured to be fitted with the fitting portion, wherein the fitting member and the fitted member are each constituted of a porous structural body (1), the porous structural body is made of a flexible resin or rubber, the porous structural bod...