ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,803, issued on March 17, was assigned to Gentherm Prazision SE (Treuchtlingen, Germany).

"Method for controlling two or more comfort functions of a vehicle and vehicle device" was invented by Erich Dorfler (Treuchtlingen, Germany), Jurgen Baumgartl (Treuchtlingen, Germany) and Klaus Beetz (Weissenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling two or more comfort functions of a vehicle uses a controller, wherein a first comfort function is provided by a pneumatic massage system of a vehicle seat including one or more air cushions and an air supply system for individual air impingement of the one or more air cus...