ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,590, issued on July 7, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Fitting for a vehicle seat, and vehicle seat" was invented by Karthikeyan Maharajapuram Subramanian (Leverkusen, Germany), Eduard Meres (Skalica, Slovak Republic), Ralf Vomberg (Muelheim, Germany), Grit Scholz (Remscheid, Germany), Kirubaharan Reginold Albert (Burscheid, Germany) and Balaji Paramasivam (Leverkusen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitting for a vehicle seat, the fitting having a first fitting part, a second fitting part and an eccentric pivoting the first fitting part and the second fitting part eccentrically with respect to each other ab...