ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,670, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).
"Longitudinal seat-adjustment device and vehicle seat" was invented by Ingo Quast (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Erik Sprenger (Wermelskirchen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A longitudinal seat-adjustment device may have one rail arrangement having at least one rail pair and at least one locking element. The rail arrangement is formed from a top rail and a bottom rail, which are movable relative to one another. The at least one locking element is held in a spring-loaded and movable manner on the top rail and blocks a movement of the top rail in the bottom rail...