ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,859, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to BROSE SITECH SP. Z O.O. (Polkowice, Poland).
"Apparatus for quickly rotating an assembly of a vehicle seat" was invented by Tomas Barkow (Braunschweig, Germany), Lukasz Pyziak (Nysa, Poland) and Michal Dominikowski (Swidnica, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an apparatus (10) for quickly rotating an assembly (100) of a vehicle seat, a locking element (40) being secured by means of a cam (30) and being unlocked by means of another cam (20). Furthermore, the rotation of the driving shaft (12) on which the cams (20, 30) are arranged is transmitted to a toothed eleme...