ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,760, issued on March 17, was assigned to GRAMMER AG (Ursensollen, Germany).
"Method and device for mounting a headrest for a vehicle seat" was invented by Markus Hoffmann (Kummersbruck, Germany) and Johannes Raab (Schwandorf, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the semi-automated assembly of a headrest for a vehicle seat, including the following method steps: feeding a cover stretched in a holder of the headrest to a conveying device, which cover includes an opening, such that an edge region of the opening is held open by the holder in such a way that a head box can be inserted into an inner space of the cover; trans...