US Patent Issued to Atieva on June 2 for "Multi-pivot angled vehicle seat kinematics" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,437, issued on June 2, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Multi-pivot angled vehicle seat kinematics" was invented by Andrzej Pleskot (Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany) and Virat Panchani (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat in part comprises an eight-pivot angled assembly comprising: front and rear subassemblies each mounted to a cushion frame at a non-perpendicular angle to floor rails, each of the front and rear subassemblies comprising upper pivots and lower pivots coupled to each other respective links, a crossmember coupling links to each other. An electric motor is coupled to the eight-pivot angl...