ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,307, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Restraint frame for vehicle seat" was invented by Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seatback and a restraint frame including a first bar, a second bar spaced from the first bar, and a lap bar elongated from the first bar to the second bar. The seatback has a top end and a bottom end, is elongated along a first axis from the top end to the bottom end, and the first bar and the second bar each h...