US Patent Issued to Lear on June 10 for "Seat assembly, cushion, and tool and method of forming" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,325,624, issued on June 10, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Seat assembly, cushion, and tool and method of forming" was invented by Curtis Hudson (Macomb, Mich.), Eric Repke (Milford, Mich.) and Lisa Swikoski (West Bloomfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided with a stranded mesh material blank inserted into a cavity of a tool assembly shaped to form a cushion member. Fluid is circulated above a first temperature threshold through a series of apertures defined in a forming surface of the tool assembly and into the cavity thereby softening the blank and conforming a shape of the blank to the formi...