US Patent Issued to Lear on Aug. 25 for "Striker assembly and seat assembly" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,346, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Striker assembly and seat assembly" was invented by Yanyun Shen (Shanghai), Jingyu Kang (Shanghai), Cheng Ye (Shanghai), Yue Zuo (Shanghai) and Guogang Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a striker assembly and a seat assembly. A striker assembly includes a motor, a worm screw operably coupled with the motor, a gear segment engaged with the worm screw, and a striker connected to the gear segment and configured for engagement with a latch of a seat back of the seat to adjustably couple the seat back with a mounting sur...