US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 8 for "Seat control device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,772, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Seat control device" was invented by Ken Kuretake (Mishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat control device is provided that controls driving of an actuator for changing a posture of a seat in braking, in which, in a case when determining that a sinking behavior in which a front portion of the seat moves downward from a position before the braking is generated, the seat control device executes first control of causing the actuator to output force in a direction opposite to pitch angular velocity of the seat, and in a case when determining that a ...