ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,320, issued on May 5, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).
"Vehicle seat and method for assembling a vehicle seat" was invented by Joachim Kaemmerer (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Gregor Lubczyk (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Markus Weber (Waldmohr, Germany), Ralph Recktenwald (Freisen, Germany) and Holger Kunz (Otterberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat may have a seat part which can be moved from a usage position into a non-usage position, a seat back, a base, and a seat kinematics connecting the seat part pivotably to the base. The seat kinematics may have a rocker which by a first rotary joint is deflected...