US Patent Issued to Toyoda Gosei, National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System on Sept. 15 for "Posture control device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,885, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (Kiyosu, Japan) and National University Corporation Tokai National Higher Education and Research System (Nagoya, Japan).

"Posture control device" was invented by Takeshi Fujiwara (Kiyosu, Japan), Koichiro Tsuzuku (Kiyosu, Japan), Hitoshi Hirata (Nagoya, Japan) and Shintaro Oyama (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A posture control device includes a posture information detection unit, a tactile stimulus application unit configured to apply tactile stimuli to the somatosensory receptors of a user, and an external tactile stimulus application unit configured to a...