US Patent Issued to IMS GEAR on Jan. 27 for "Linear drive, longitudinal adjustment unit of a seat, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,999, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IMS GEAR SE & Co. KGAA (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Linear drive, longitudinal adjustment unit of a seat, and motor vehicle" was invented by Wassem Mrewed (Tuttlingen, Germany), Marco Werschler (Radolfzell, Germany), Kenny Nietzel (Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany) and Marcel Mittelbach (Schluchsee, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A linear drive (1) has at least one rail (10) which is oriented along a longitudinal axis (L) and has at least one slotted link (20) which forms a tooth profile (21) and two profile surfaces (25, 26) facing one another. The drive has at least one slider (30) whic...