US Patent Issued to Lear on Feb. 10 for "Seat assembly, trim cover assembly, and method of assembling" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,161, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Seat assembly, trim cover assembly, and method of assembling" was invented by Huaying Zhang (Shanghai), Jiajun Li (Shanghai), Yong Yang (Shanghai) and Chandrashekar Simha (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a seat assembly, a trim cover assembly, and a method of assembling. An assembly is provided with a seat member comprising a seating surface with a groove, a first trim layer, a second trim layer attached to the first trim layer, and one or more retaining members attached to the second trim layer. The second trim layer is positi...