US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on June 9 for "Transformable seat back for forming armrests" (Ohio, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,394, issued on June 9, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Transformable seat back for forming armrests" was invented by Yousuf Sedki Riad (Ostrander, Ohio), Ken Albert Louis Buttery (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Luis Miguel de Matos Isidoro (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assemblies, components, and methods are presented herein for a transformable seat. The seat includes a seat back. The seat back incorporates a frame and frame is rotatably coupled at one end to a seat base. The frame at least partially defines an opening in the seat back and two panels are each rotatably coupled to respective sides...