ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,394, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zoox Inc (Foster City, Calif.).
"Deformable vehicle seat" was invented by Paul Choin (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Anthony Iannone (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat comprises a controllable deformable material and control apparatus is provided for controlling the state of a controllable deformable material. The control apparatus is configured to generate a signal to cause a control element in proximity to the controllable deformable material to change the characteristic of the controllable deformable material and thereby change the state of the controllable deformabl...