US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI TRANSYS on March 25 for "Seatback-folding device for emergency escape for vehicles" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,934, issued on March 25, was assigned to HYUNDAI TRANSYS INC. (Seosan-si, South Korea).

"Seatback-folding device for emergency escape for vehicles" was invented by Sang Min Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jung Bin Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Byung Mo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Kyu Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jae Sung Lee (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatback-folding device for emergency escape for vehicles is equipped with a simply structured mechanism for emergency escape. A locking operation at the time of unfolding of a seatback of a second-row seat and an unlocking operation at th...