ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,777, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TS TECH Co. LTD. (Asaka, Japan).

"Conveyance seat" was invented by Shuichi Akutsu (Tochigi, Japan), Hirokazu Onitsuka (Tochigi, Japan), Kazuya Aoki (Tochigi, Japan), Kazuya Inoue (Tochigi, Japan) and Soichiro Tanaka (Tochigi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a conveyance seat in which in a seat pad composed of two layers of pad members, the number of components is reduced by fixing a skin to the seat pad without using a locking member such as a clip. A conveyance seat includes a seat pad; and a skin covering the seat pad. The seat pad includes a first pad member and a seco...