ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,124, issued on March 3, was assigned to BROSE SITECH GMBH (Wolfsburg, Germany) and BROSE SITECH SP. Z O. O (Polkowice, Poland).
"Seat rail" was invented by Norbert Volkner (Wolfsburg, Germany), Nicolas Becker (Lehre, Germany), Gunnar Steffen (Wolfenbuttel, Germany) and Suleyman Semir (Tappenbeck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat rail (1) for connecting a vehicle seat (100) to a body of a vehicle. The seat rail (1) may have a seat rail profile which is produced by roll forming of sheet metal, the seat rail profile of the seat rail (1) having an accommodation cavity (11) for a sliding element (20) which can be displaced wi...