ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,860, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Slidable post adjacent rotatable seat" 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: "An assembly includes a vehicle roof and a vehicle floor spaced from the vehicle roof. The assembly includes a seat supported by the vehicle floor. The seat is rotatable about an axis of rotation from a forward-facing position to a rearward-facing position and the seat being movable along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The assembly includes a post elongate...