ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,896, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dorel Juvenile Group Inc. (Foxboro, Mass.).
"Child restraint" was invented by Erinc Erel Caglar (Devens, Mass.), Jason H. Johnson (Brownstown, Ind.), Nathan W. Heisey (Seymour, Ind.) and Said S. Nakhla (Daphne, Ala.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child restraint includes a seat base adapted to be secured to a vehicle seat. The seat base includes a seat-base foundation formed to include a vehicle seatbelt path and a vehicle seatbelt retainer coupled to the seat-base foundation and configured to pivot between a released position spaced away from the vehicle seatbelt path and a clamped positio...