ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,165, issued on June 30, was assigned to Faurecia Autositze GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for performing a massage program and vehicle seat system" was invented by Piotr Ceglarek (Katowice, Poland), Rafal Strok (Walbrzych, Poland) and Edwin Valencia Rodriguez (Szczawno Zdroj, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a massage program carried out by a massage system that is part of a vehicle seat system that includes a vehicle seat with a backrest and a seat part, and a pneumatically operated massage system with N massage bladders. The method involves selecting and starting a massage program to define a sequenc...