ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,836, issued on July 28, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Vehicle device having a base vehicle and a seat unit" was invented by Ziad Alkhoury (Cergy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle device comprising a base vehicle and a seat unit being releasably connectable to the base vehicle is described. The base vehicle comprises an electronic control means and a vehicle-side wireless communication means, and the seat unit comprises at least one sensor, a battery, an electronic unit, and a seat-side wireless communication means. In order to provide the electronic control means of the base vehicle with t...