US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Jan. 13 for "Systems and methods for flipping a seat of a vehicle" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,114, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Systems and methods for flipping a seat of a vehicle" was invented by Shuguang Chen (Shanghai), Jean Marc Lapp (Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.) and Dichuan Pang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for flipping a seat of a vehicle. The systems include a base member for the seat, a drive mechanism partially used for driving the base member to rotate, a first support member and a second support member of the seat, a backrest member, a lock mechanism for locking and unlocking the backrest member with the second suppo...