US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on March 24 for "Positioning system for a vehicle head restraint" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,368, issued on March 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Positioning system for a vehicle head restraint" was invented by Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dorel M. Sala (Troy, Mich.) and Chin-Hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A positioning system for a head restraint in a vehicle includes one or more head restraint actuators, one or more proximity sensors positioned oriented to detect a fore-aft distance of a head of an occupant relative to the head restraint, and one or more controllers. The one or more controllers include one or more processors that execute instructions to det...