ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,340, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).
"Longitudinal adjuster and vehicle seat" was invented by Erik Sprenger (Wermelskirchen, Germany) and Ingo Quast (Dusseldorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat may have a first rail and a second rail. The rails may form an internal channel and the first rail may be displaceable relative to the second rail in the longitudinal direction. A spindle nut may be connected to the second rail and a spindle which cooperates with an internal thread of the spindle nut and may have an external thread may be arranged in the inte...