US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 23 for "Head restraint guide" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,033, issued on June 23, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Head restraint guide" was invented by Dan Negrut (Wixom, Mich.) and Anthony Saleh (Harper Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat includes a seat back frame and a head restraint assembly supported on the seatback frame within a head restraint guide, the head restraint guide includes a cylindrical tubular body adapted to receive a support post of the head restraint assembly therein, and an integrated snap-finger extending radially inward and adapted to engage a notch formed within the support post, wherein upon insertion of the s...