ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,158, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and devices for a vehicle" was invented by Ignacio J. Alvarez (Portland, Ore.), Nese Alyuz Civitci (Portland, Ore.), Maria Soledad Elli (Hillsboro, Ore.), Javier Felip Leon (Hillsboro, Ore.), Florian Geissler (Munich), David Israel Gonzalez Aguirre (Portland, Ore.), Neslihan Kose Cihangir (Munich), Michael Paulitsch (Ottobrunn, Germany), Rafael Rosales (Unterhaching, Germany) and Javier S. Turek (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for controlling an active seat of ...