ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,576, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to TACHI-S Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Head rest" was invented by Kazuhiro Mihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head rest, includes: a stay supported by a seat back of a vehicle seat; an accommodation member forming an accommodation space for accommodating a part of the stay; and a cover member covering a part of the accommodation member to form a part of an outer surface, in which the accommodation member includes a pair of side surface portions and an upper surface portion, the pair of side surface portions being disposed side by side in a left-right direction of the vehicle seat, and the upp...