US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 29 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,861, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Akira Kaneko (Toyota, Japan) and Daishi Takata (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat including a seat cushion, a seat back, a reclining mechanism, a lumbar support mechanism, and a control unit, wherein the control unit pushes out a support surface toward an occupant by the lumbar support mechanism when the seat back tilts rearward by a predetermined angle or more."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2025, under Application No. 19/289,104.

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