US Patent Issued to Adient US on Sept. 29 for "Retaining element for a cover retaining assembly, set of retaining elements, and cover retaining assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,860, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Retaining element for a cover retaining assembly, set of retaining elements, and cover retaining assembly" was invented by Laurent Hugues (Soultz les Baines, France) and Francois Mougin (Barr, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A retaining element for a cover retaining assembly of a vehicle seat may have a fastening region for a cover fastening element and at least one anchoring region for foaming into a cushion element. The retaining element is in the form of a one-part, bent wire or a one-part, filiform plastic structure. The bent wire or the filiform pl...