US Patent Issued to Adient US on Dec. 9 for "Lower leg support device for a vehicle seat, and vehicle seat" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,809, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Lower leg support device for a vehicle seat, and vehicle seat" was invented by Viktor Enns (Kaiserslautern, Germany), Thomas Dill (Heiligenmoschel, Germany), Wolfgang Pluta (Heiligenmoschel, Germany) and Erik Dick (St. Julian, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lower leg support device for a vehicle seat may have a first cushion carrier, a second cushion carrier, which is connected in an articulated manner to the first cushion carrier, and a coupling gear for transferring the first cushion carrier and the second cushion carrier from a non-use position to a ...