US Patent Issued to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE on Sept. 8 for "Function-adapted three-dimensional foam structure" (German, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,779, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Function-adapted three-dimensional foam structure" was invented by Rainer Seitner (Vienna), Ulrich Aschenbrenner (Vienna), Max Pieper (Erfurt, Germany), Volker Sieber (Karlsbad, Germany) and Carsten Frank (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function-adapted three-dimensional foam structure (2) for a vehicle seat (4) has first foam structure planes (6) to ensure a constant compressive strength of the foam structure (2) in two spatial directions x, y, second foam structure planes (8) to ensure a length variance of the foam struct...