ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,156, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Lowerable seat mount" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat support system including a seat mount having multiple segments movable relative to each other between a raised configuration and a lowered configuration. The multiple segments include a first segment attached to a floor of a vehicle and a second segment connected to the first segment. A linear actuator is connected to the second segment and movable from a retract...