ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,242, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle seat and seatbelt assembly" 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: "A seat assembly includes a seatback having a top end. The seat assembly includes an arm supported by the seatback, and movable from a stowed position to a deployed position. The seat assembly includes a first webbing guide supported by the seatback at the top end. The seat assembly includes a second webbing guide fixed to and movable with the arm, the sec...