US Patent Issued to Lear on Aug. 4 for "Seat assembly and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,908, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Seat assembly and method" was invented by Steven Ziolkowski (Farmington Hills, Mich.), David J. Abdella (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Samuel Blair (Troy, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat assembly includes a seat, a fan disposed at least partially in the seat to ventilate the seat, a sensor configured to sense if a portion of an occupant is adjacent a surface of the seat, and an electronic controller connected to the fan and the sensor. The electronic controller can control a speed of the fan according to an output from the sensor."

The patent was filed on Dec...