ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,432, issued on March 17, was assigned to FOSTER ELECTRIC COMPANY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Vibration device" was invented by Yoji Fukumoto (Akishima, Japan), Shinya Suzuki (Akishima, Japan), Karen Kobayashi (Akishima, Japan) and Yosuke Haba (Akishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration device causes a vehicle seat, including a seat frame that supports the seat relative to a vehicle body and a seat cushion that supports a seated occupant, to vibrate. The vibration device includes a vibrator having a vibration face attached to a seat frame, and a vibration control device that causes the vibrator to vibrate based on an input sound s...