US Patent Issued to Camaco on May 19 for "Locking assembly for recliner" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,060, issued on May 19, was assigned to Camaco LLC.

"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 pawl disposed within the housing, and a cam disposed within the housing. The pawl has a bottom profile include includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion. The cam includes a first lobe and a second lobe. The cam is configured to engage with the bottom profile of the cam to reposition the pawl betwe...