ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,063, issued on April 7, was assigned to TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC. (Providence, R.I.).

"Seat central control arm with tensioning" was invented by Blake David Raybern (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a central control arm with tensioning for a lateral tracking and swivel system in a seat are provided. The control system includes a central control arm body, where the central control arm body has one or more attachment points and a cable interface feature, one or more paddle arms, and one or more adjustment mechanisms attached to the central control arm body, where each adjustment mechanism of the one ...