ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,032, issued on June 23, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Hiroshi Baba (Shioya-gun, Japan), Ryota Urushihara (Shioya-gun, Japan), Takuya Arai (Shioya-gun, Japan) and Yoichi Tachikawa (Shioya-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes side frames and plate-shaped brackets. The side frames include cushion side frames disposed to a left and to a right of a seat cushion and back side frames disposed to a left and to a right of a seatback. The plate-shaped brackets are fixed to rear end portions of the cushion side frames to support the back side frames. Each of the br...