US Patent Issued to Adient US on April 7 for "Adjustment device and vehicle seat with adjustment device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,861, issued on April 7, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Adjustment device and vehicle seat with adjustment device" was invented by Oliver Kuntz (Wermelskirchen, Germany), Van-Toan Ho (Solingen, Germany) and Frank Schlueter (Moers, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A height adjustment device for a component of a vehicle seat may have at least one drive unit having a motor and two height adjustment units. A shaft is arranged between each one of the height adjustment units and the motor and makes it possible to transmit a rotation of the motor to the respective height adjustment unit."

The patent was filed on Jan...