US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 8 for "Vehicle seat assembly having a pivot pitch" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,375, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle seat assembly having a pivot pitch" was invented by Kurt Leon Kormos (Milford, Mich.), Rabindranath Persad (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Thomas J. Susko (Saint Clair Shores, Mich.) and Frank Glenn Walega (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle seat assembly convertible between a use position and a non-use position. The vehicle seat assembly includes a seat with a seat cushion support, a seatback, a base that connects to a vehicle, a front pivot linkage supported by the base by a first joint and pivotally connected to the seat cush...