US Patent Issued to CAMACO on Oct. 7 for "Locking assembly for recliner" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,604, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CAMACO LLC (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

"Locking assembly for recliner" was invented by Jeff Carroll (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Sanjay Vakil (Troy, Mich.), Mohammad Fazli (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Yang Cao (Troy, Mich.) and Harish Bijwe (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking mechanism includes a plate and a pawl. The plate includes a peripheral lip having an interior face that defines a plurality of teeth. The pawl defines a central axis and includes a plurality of pawl teeth including a first middle tooth and a second middle tooth. The first middle tooth is positioned on a first sid...