ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,049, issued on March 18, was assigned to FAURECIA Sieges d'Automobile (Nanterre, France).

"Method for assembling a tube in a frame part of a vehicle seat and assembly of a tube in a frame part of a vehicle seat" was invented by Sylvain Roche (Varennes Changy, France), David Epaud (Lardy, France) and Farouk Bouzid (Bretigny sur Orge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assembling a tube into a frame part of a vehicle seat comprises the steps of: i) providing a tube such that a first free end of a first side of an end portion of the tube is offset longitudinally relative to a second free end of a second side of the end ...