US Patent Issued to Keiper Seating Mechanisms on Feb. 4 for "Longitudinal adjuster for a seat and seat" (Michigan Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,700, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Keiper Seating Mechanisms Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Longitudinal adjuster for a seat and seat" was invented by Vasile Emil Bozintan (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A longitudinal adjuster for a seat, in particular vehicle seat, may have at least a fixed lower track and an upper track slidable coupled to the lower track, an adjustment device for longitudinally adjusting the upper track relative to the lower track, a latch mechanism to latch the upper track relative to the lower track, and an electromechanical device relatively coupled to the latch mechanism. The electromechanic...