US Patent Issued to Adient US on Sept. 22 for "Longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat, and vehicle seat" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,568, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Longitudinal adjuster for a vehicle seat, 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 adjuster may have a pair of rails and a drive device for the pair of rails. The pair of rails may have a first rail and has a second rail on which the first rail is displaceably guided. The drive device may have at least one motor, a transmission unit, a spindle block which has an inner thread, and a spindle which has an outer thread operatively connected to the in...