ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,053, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to FAURECIA Sieges d'Automobile (Nanterre, France).

"Control system for locking devices for a vehicle seat, track mechanism, and vehicle seat assembly" was invented by Michel Timon (Le Vey, France), Fabrice Petit (Saint Georges des Groseillers, France) and Vincent Nardin (Flers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for locking devices for vehicle seats comprising a chassis and an element mobile along a straight direction relative to the chassis and a first pivoting arm. A first end of the first pivoting arm is fixed to the mobile element of the linear actuator. A second end of the ...