US Patent Issued to NITTO, NITTO DENKO, NITTO BEND TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 24 for "Capacitive seat sensor and methods for making and using same" (California, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,053, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NITTO INC. (Teaneck, N.J.), NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan) and NITTO BEND TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Farmington, Utah).

"Capacitive seat sensor and methods for making and using same" was invented by Toshihiko Omote (San Jose, Calif.), Benedicto Delos Santos (San Jose, Calif.), Juma Belknap (San Jose, Calif.), John Bortell (San Jose, Calif.), Colton Allen Ottley (Farmington, Utah), Jared K. Jonas (Farmington, Utah), Colin D. Eichinger (Farmington, Utah) and Nathan C. Briggs (Farmington, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a vehicle seat sensor system includes a vehicle seat, a flexible ...