US Patent Issued to FCA US on Jan. 13 for "Vehicle occupant comfort analysis systems and methods" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,584, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Vehicle occupant comfort analysis systems and methods" was invented by Theodore C Sawdon (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Anita M Satkiewicz (Troy, Mich.), Yun Lu (Troy, Mich.) and Paul J Hogan (Sterling Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of analyzing postural comfort of an occupant seated on a seat track of a vehicle includes obtaining, at a computing device having one or more processors, a first set of data corresponding to a mannequin definition, obtaining, at the computing device, a second set of data corresponding to refe...