ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,111, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).
"Tool to manufacture a cushion" was invented by Ibrahim Valenzuela (Novi, Mich.), Haifeng Liu (Southfield, Mich.), Lisa Swikoski (Southfield, Mich.), Kevin M. Geisler (Southfield, Mich.), Michelle A. Pereny (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Jeanene F. Munroe (Southfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a product, dispenses, through a tool with an aperture sized to match an overall perimeter of a product, a molten thermoplastic resin. The tool generates a plurality of strands through the tool aperture while maintaining the plurality of s...