ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,131, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle seating assembly" was invented by Johnathan Andrew Line (Northville, Mich.), Joseph Michael Kish (Canton, Mich.), Daniel Ferretti (Commerce Township, Mich.), Spencer Robert Hoernke (Dundas, Canada) and Marcos Silva Kondrad (Macomb Township, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seating assembly includes a seatback pivotally coupled to a seat base. A floor panel defines a cutout that has a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first and second sidewalls frame a void. A track assembly has first and second C-channels coupled to the first ...