US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Pet carrier system for vehicle seat" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,147, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Pet carrier system for vehicle seat" was invented by Minsu Lee (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jongsuk An (Seo-gu, South Korea), Kwangseok Yu (Seoul, South Korea) and Ilhan Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A carrier system for carrying a pet in a vehicle includes a seat having a seat bottom and a seat back. A carrier is integrated into the seat back. The carrier has at least one panel movable between a stowed state in the seat back and a deployed state projecting from the seat back."

The patent was filed on Feb. 16, 2024, unde...