US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 27 for "Seat assembly with deployable belt member" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,869, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Seat assembly with deployable belt member" was invented by Johnathan Andrew Line (Northville, Mich.), Joseph Michael Kish (Canton, Mich.), Macit Aktas (Windsor, Canada), Benjamin Yilma (Canton, Mich.), Derek Board (Ferndale, Mich.), Kevin Michael Pline (Plymouth, Mich.), Raed EL-Jawahri (Northville, Mich.), Jeff Charles Paddock (Dearborn, Mich.), James Robert Chascsa II (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Marcos Silva Kondrad (Macomb Township, Mich.), Rachel Demerly (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Robyne McBride (Belle River, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Off...