US Patent Issued to Magna Seating on Sept. 1 for "Loop latch release system for a long rail assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,538, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Magna Seating Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Loop latch release system for a long rail assembly" was invented by Kai Zhao (Novi, Mich.), Louis Vetere II (Commerce Township, Mich.), Avery Folk (West Bloomfield, Mich.) and Kristof M Kurzeja (Commerce Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail drive assembly having a loop latch and a loop latch release system is assembled with a fixed long rail for transposing a vehicle seat along the fixed long rail. The loop latch has spaced apart trigger releases and is repositionable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The loop latch releas...