ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,372, issued on March 24, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Posture support device" was invented by Yoshiyuki Kawamura (Seto, Japan), Makoto Omura (Toyota, Japan) and Keita Ito (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It has at least one fixing plate arranged on the seat back and at least one support member arranged on the fixing plate, and the support member can be arranged at an arbitrary angle at an arbitrary position on the front surface of the fixing plate. Therefore, the position of the support member can be adjusted not only in the vertical direction but also in the horizontal direction with resp...