ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,785, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Seatbelt anchor mechanism" was invented by Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.), S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.) and Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat system includes a seat having a seatback and a seat bottom extending in a seat-forward direction from the seatback. A seatbelt retractor is mounted to the seatback and an anchor is carried by the seat bottom and movable seat-rearward and seat-forward between a retracted position and an extended position. A seatbelt webbing extends from the seatbelt retractor ...