ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,755, issued on March 17, was assigned to Hyundai Transys Inc. (Seosan-si, South Korea).
"Walk-in apparatus of vehicular seat" was invented by Jung Bin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sang Min Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jun Kyu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A walk-in apparatus includes an actuator driven by manipulation of a walk-in manipulation unit of a user; a folding unit actuated by the actuator and folding a seat back forward; a tilting unit interlocking with the actuation of the folding unit and tilting a rear side of the seat; and a sliding unit interlocking with the tilting unit and mov...