ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,436, issued on June 2, was assigned to KEIPER SEATING MECHANISMS Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Modular and electromechanically integrated easy-entry mechanism" was invented by Wenjin Fu (Shanghai), Bin Huang (Shanghai), Ke Liu (Shanghai), Dong Liu (Shanghai) and Lei Sun (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular and electromechanically integrated easy-entry mechanism includes an easy-entry mechanism, manufactured independently of slide rail assemblies, and mounted on upper slide rails in the slide rail assemblies by fasteners. A total travel of slide rails is divided into a comfort travel for front-rear adjustment of a passenger and a...