US Patent Issued to Lear on Sept. 9 for "Armrest assembly with internal motion damper" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,764, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Armrest assembly with internal motion damper" was invented by Zhengda Mao (Shanghai), Mingzhe Zhao (Shanghai) and Yili Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An armrest assembly includes an armrest body that defines an interior space. A first shaft extends from a first side of the armrest body along an armrest axis and is attached to the armrest body for relative rotational movement about the armrest axis. A second shaft extends from a second side of the armrest body along the armrest axis and is attached to the armrest body for relative rotational movemen...