US Patent Issued to ALSTOM Holdings on March 11 for "Method for controlling the occupancy of vehicle seats by passengers, and associated devices" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,759, issued on March 11, was assigned to ALSTOM Holdings (Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, France).

"Method for controlling the occupancy of vehicle seats by passengers, and associated devices" was invented by Bastian Simoni (Nogent sur Marne, France) and Luc Jung (Bron, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is for controlling the occupancy of the seats of one or more vehicle(s) by passengers using a control device for controlling the occupancy of the seats. The vehicle includes a number of seats equipped with a reading light. The control device includes each reading light, a control system for controlling the reading lights and a con...