US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Nov. 18 for "Device for a seat, seat and vehicle having such a device, and method for playing back media content" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,894, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Device for a seat, seat and vehicle having such a device, and method for playing back media content" was invented by Michael Schraut (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for a seat, includes: a docking unit that is designed for connection to a mobile terminal in order to allow a data transfer from the mobile terminal to at least one media unit; and a control unit that is designed to record at least one context parameter that specifies a current surroundings situation of the device; and to actuate at least one functional unit based on the at leas...