ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,532, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Camaco LLC.

"Constant center lounge seat" was invented by Jeffrey Carroll (West Bloomfield, Mich.), David Williams (South Lyon, Mich.), Joseph Parent (Canton, Mich.) and Amol Mundhe (Osmanabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lounge seat for a vehicle defines a seat reference point. The lounge seat includes a seat frame assembly, a back frame assembly pivotably coupled to the seat frame assembly, a track assembly coupled to the seat frame assembly and configured to facilitate translating the seat frame assembly in a X direction, and a plurality of motors configured to cause movement of t...