US Patent Issued to Britax Child Safety on Jan. 13 for "Infant car seat base attachment mechanism" (Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,116, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Britax Child Safety Inc. (Fort Mill, S.C.).

"Infant car seat base attachment mechanism" was invented by Mark Matthew Messner (Lancaster, Pa.), Mitchell L. Shellenberger (Mount Joy, Pa.), Quentin G. Walsh (Fort Mill, S.C.) and Brandon Hoover (Cornelius, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infant car seat system includes a base including a first pair of brackets and a second pair of brackets; and an infant car seat including a first pair of locking pins positioned and arranged to be locked via the first pair of brackets and a second pair of locking pins positioned and arranged to be locked via...