US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 7 for "Seat control device, storage medium storing computer program for controlling seat and method for controlling seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,586, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Seat control device, storage medium storing computer program for controlling seat and method for controlling seat" was invented by Kenta Yamada (Shinagawa-ku, Japan), Hiroshi Morimoto (Ota-ku, Japan), Udara Eshan Manawadu (Edogawa-ku, Japan) and Takuhiro Omi (Anjo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control device has a processor configured to determine whether a control transfer demand for transferring driving of a vehicle from a manual control operation to an automatic control operation or from the manual control operation to the automatic control ...