ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,863, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to LEAR Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Vehicle seat assembly and subassemblies thereof" was invented by Samuel Blair (Rochester, Mich.), David Abdella (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Joshua Hallock (Warren, Mich.), Ashley Baisch (Washington Township, Mich.), Benedict J. Messina (Warren, Mich.), Ramon Arias (Southfield, Mich.), Ronald L. Miotto (Canton, Mich.), Thomas Welch Jr. (Ortonville, Mich.), Thomas A. Welch Sr. (Ortonville, Mich.), Christopher D. Johnson (Novi, Mich.), Lisa Swikoski (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Mitchell Wing (Southfield, Mich.), Grzegorz Kasperczyk (Warsaw, Poland), Salim Marouf (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ian Fletcher (Milford, Mich.), Sum...