US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 9 for "Adjustable seat cushion insert" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,391, issued on June 9, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Adjustable seat cushion insert" was invented by Venkata Narasimha Rao Cherukuvada (Troy, Mich.), Jeremy Kelley (Brighton, Mich.) and Yun Wu (Lake Orion, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a seat assembly. The seat assembly includes a seat cushion, a cushion insert frame rotatably coupled to the seat cushion, and a locking device for engaging the cushion insert frame to the seat cushion and for disengaging the cushion insert frame from the seat cushion to allow for adjusting an angle of the cushion insert frame with respect to th...