US Patent Issued to Camaco on July 14 for "Locking assembly for recliner" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,255, issued on July 14, was assigned to Camaco LLC (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Locking assembly for recliner" was invented by Jeff Carroll (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Sanjay Vakil (Troy, Mich.), Mohammad Fazli (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Yang Cao (Troy, Mich.) and Harish Bijwe (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking mechanism includes a housing, a cam disposed within the housing, and pawls disposed within the housing. The housing includes a first plate defining channels and a second plate received by the first plate. Each of the pawls is positioned within a respective channel. Each of the pawls has a first side profile def...