US Patent Issued to Adient US on April 14 for "Vehicle seat" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,268, issued on April 14, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Joachim Kaemmerer (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Ralph Recktenwald (Freisen, Germany) and Holger Kunz (Otterberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat having a seat part, a backrest, a kinematics system for transferring the vehicle seat from a use position into an entry position and back, a drive apparatus for driving the kinematics system, and a coupling apparatus for coupling the drive apparatus to the kinematics system. The coupling apparatus has a pawl and a counter-element. The pawl and the counter-element are l...