ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,405, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Adient US LLC (Plymouth, Mich.).

"Underframe for a height adjuster, and height adjuster" was invented by Lijo Mathew (Pune, India), Dnyaneshwar Garad (Pune, India), Vijay Unde (Pune, India), Igor Gordeenko (Frechen, Germany), Tobias Ewald (Hueckeswagen, Germany) and Juraj Bagin (Dubnica nad Vahom, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underframe for a height adjuster of a seat, in particular a vehicle seat, may have a base frame which is connectable to a vehicle floor, a seat frame which is adjustable relative to the base frame and has at least one frame part, and a spindle drive unit...