US Patent Issued to LEAR on April 1 for "Seat assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,768, issued on April 1, was assigned to LEAR Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Seat assembly" was invented by Joshua Hallock (Warren, Mich.), Lisa Swikoski (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Samuel Blair (Troy, Mich.) and David Abdella (Royal Oak, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat assembly has a seating cushion defining a first surface to support an occupant and a second surface opposite to the first surface, with the first surface further defining a trench. A fastener has a longitudinal body with a central region positioned between a first end region and a second end region, and a base extending outwardly from the second end region and t...