US Patent Issued to Steering Solutions IP Holding on Aug. 11 for "Electric seat motor absolute sensor diagnostics" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,392, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Steering Solutions IP Holding Corp. (Saginaw, Mich.).

"Electric seat motor absolute sensor diagnostics" was invented by Brian G. Maust (Unionville, Mich.), Christopher R. Douglas (Saginaw, Mich.), Stan Schlatter (Linwood, Mich.) and Andrew E. Maschke (Birch Run, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for sensor diagnostics in a seat suspension system includes: generating, by a first rotational position sensor, a motor position signal representing a rotational position of a motor shaft, the motor shaft being coupled to an output shaft, such that rotation of the motor shaft causes rotation...