US Patent Issued to Adient US on March 17 for "Sliding block for a pair of seat rails, and vehicle seat" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,754, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Sliding block for a pair of seat rails, and vehicle seat" was invented by Ingo Quast (Dusseldorf, Germany), Erik Sprenger (Wermelskirchen, Germany) and Jurgen Krebs (Rockenhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding block for a pair of rails of a longitudinal adjusting mechanism may have a base which has a lower sliding surface and an upper sliding surface. At least the upper sliding surface, along its longitudinal extent, may have alternating contact regions and/or parts of the upper sliding surface having one contact region each. Two pairs of t...