ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,460, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle seat buckle assembly" was invented by Monica Ramirez (Mexico City) and Fernando Ortega (Puebla, Mexico).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a seat having a seat bottom and a seatback. The vehicle includes a buckle movable from a retracted position at the seatback to a deployed position spaced from the seatback. The vehicle includes an actuator operatively coupled to the buckle to move the buckle from the retracted position to the deployed position. The vehicle includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instruct...