US Patent Issued to Adient US on June 9 for "Drive mechanism for a seat cushion length extender" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,392, issued on June 9, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Drive mechanism for a seat cushion length extender" was invented by John David Newberry (Van Buren Township, Mich.), Scott Allen Profozich (Canton, Mich.) and Pritam Rajaram Mali (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism for a seat cushion length extender may have a lower slide, an upper slide slidably engaged with the lower slide, a linkage member having a threaded rod having a flange end with an aperture therethrough and a pin located through the linkage flange aperture and the linkage member aperture."

The patent was filed on Aug. 13, 2024...