ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,858, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Hyundai Transys Inc. (Seosan-si, South Korea).
"Walk-in apparatus of vehicular seat" was invented by Sang Min Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Bin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jun Kyu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a walk-in apparatus provided in a vehicular seat, which includes: an actuator driven by manipulation of a walk-in manipulation unit of a user; a folding unit operated actuated by the actuator and folding a seat back forward; a tilting unit interlocking with the actuation of the folding unit and tilting the seat; and a sliding unit...