ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,130, issued on March 3, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Vehicle seat component with cover member" was invented by Maximilian Resch (Oberding, Germany) and Matthias Boehm (Oberding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat component includes a mounting structure, and a cover member attachable to the mounting structure. When the cover member is attached to the mounting structure, the cover member is movable between a first position for at least partially covering an attachment location configured for attaching an additional device, and a second position for exposing the attachment location. The mounting st...