ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,932, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Holmbergs Safety System Holding AB (Halmstad, Sweden).

"Adjustable connecting bar for child safety seat in vehicle and child safety seat" was invented by Simon Johansson (Halmstad, Sweden) and Rickard Bengtsson (Halmstad, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adjustable connecting bar (100, 100') for releasable fastening of a child safety seat (400) to a vehicle seat (502) having fixedly mounted anchoring members (504). The connecting bar (100, 100') comprises: a coupling device (104) transformable between a locked configuration and a release configuration, a first e...