ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,534, issued on May 5, was assigned to Textron Innovations Inc (Providence, R.I.).

"Modular seat control system" was invented by Joshua Lawrence Bell (Whichita, Kan.) and Matthew William Reese (Whichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment seat control system includes a control board having a processing unit, wherein the processing unit has one or more processors and one or more memories, and a mainboard. The processing unit is communicatively attached to the mainboard and mainboard has a plurality of receptacles and mainboard includes one or more communication buses between at least one of the plurality of receptacles and...