US Patent Issued to IMS GEAR on March 4 for "Longitudinal seat adjustment unit, seat arrangement, and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,359, issued on March 4, was assigned to IMS GEAR SE & Co. KGAA (Donaueschingen, Germany).

"Longitudinal seat adjustment unit, seat arrangement, and motor vehicle" was invented by Gabriel Fuchs (Reichenau, Germany), Manuel Hengstler (St. Georgen, Germany) and Michael Knoepfle (Huefingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a longitudinal seat adjustment unit (2), comprising a drive device (22), two rails (40) each with at least one spindle (42), which are arranged parallel to a longitudinal axis (X) and so as to be spaced apart from each other, and two drive trains (24) that can be driven by the dri...