ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,927, issued on March 25, was assigned to Faurecia Sieges d'Automobile (Nanterre, France).

"System for optimizing the positioning of a vehicle seat" was invented by Omar Ben Abdelaziz (Tille, France), Samuel Baudu (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) and Maroua Benzarti (Savigny sur Orge, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for optimizing the positioning of a vehicle seat includes: a module for obtaining and saving at least one morphological parameter of a passenger on the seat; a seat positioning adjustment module having at least one sensor within the vehicle, controlling the positioning; and a module for determining the positi...