US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Sept. 1 for "Passenger headrest height adjustment system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,549, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Passenger headrest height adjustment system" was invented by Minseok Jeon (Gimpo, South Korea), Kwangmin Park (Seoul, South Korea), Bongbum Back (Incheon, South Korea) and Byungjin Min (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle headrest height adjustment system includes a vehicle seat having a seat back, a seat base and a headrest. A sensing device generates a signal when the vehicle seat is unoccupied by an occupant. A headrest displacement mechanism is connected to the headrest and reversibly displaces the headrest betwee...