ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,064, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD (Asaka, Japan).

"Seat and assembling method therefor" was invented by Kazuya Aoki (Tochigi, Japan), Kenta Kikuchi (Tochigi, Japan) and Kei Okuma (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a pad having an air passage, a skin material, and a skin locking clip embedded in the pad and configured to tuck in a prescribed linear portion of the skin material. The pad includes a main body member in which the skin locking clip is embedded, an intermediate layer member arranged on the main body member, and a surface layer member arranged on the intermediate layer ...