ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,052, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to EMS-CHEMIE AG (Domat/Ems, Switzerland) and TOYOTA BOSHOKU K.K. (Kariya, Japan).

"Slider for car seat support" was invented by Takamasa Fujii (Tokyo), Gabriele Castaldi (Shenzhen city, China), Jian Yang (Suzhou, China), Philipp Harder (Chur, Switzerland), Masashi Komiyama (Takahama, Japan), Keisuke Yoshida (Takahama, Japan) and Yoichi Fujii (Takahama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Slider (1) for a car seat support which can be locked in different positions along a sliding direction (25), to be mounted in a metal rail (2), wherein the slider (1) has an extended base portion (3) and an extend...