US Patent Issued to TS TECH on March 24 for "Vehicle seat" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,366, issued on March 24, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Kohei Kowata (Shioya-gun, Japan) and Katsuya Kawata (Shioya-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a seat cushion and a seatback. The vehicle seat has a plate-shaped pressure-receiving member configured to receive a load from an occupant seated on the vehicle seat and a radio wave sensor fixed to the pressure-receiving member. The radio wave sensor is configured to acquire information about the occupant by emitting radio waves toward the occupant and detecting the radio waves reflected off the occupant....