US Patent Issued to Atieva on March 3 for "Method and apparatus for operating a multi-position vehicle seat and restraining an occupant of such seat" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,127, issued on March 3, was assigned to Atieva Inc. (Newark, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for operating a multi-position vehicle seat and restraining an occupant of such seat" was invented by Michael Davis Jacobs (Redwood City, Calif.), Eric Magnus Bach (Newark, Calif.) and Peter Dore Rawlinson (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a body structure defining an interior cabin and a multi-position seat that is attached to the body structure and includes a seat cushion and a seatback, and a coupling between the seat cushion and the seatback that positions the seatback between an upright position and a ...