ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,277, issued on July 22, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile SE & Co. KG Coburg (Germany).

"Manually and electrically adjustable device" was invented by Christian Mergl (Zeil/Main, Germany), Wojciech Falinski (Coburg, Germany) and Marcel Schieber (Weidhausen bei Coburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rest device for a vehicle, including a support and an element that adjustable relative to the support. In addition, a drive unit including a drive motor is provided, which can be activated for the motor-driven adjusting of the element relative to the support, the drive unit being designed such that the element can be adjusted re...