US Patent Issued to Magna Seating on Jan. 27 for "Advanced electronic control unit for power automotive seats" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,998, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Magna Seating Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Advanced electronic control unit for power automotive seats" was invented by Hanlong Yang (Novi, Mich.), Pragathi Prasanna Kumar (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Balasaranya Chitta (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit configured to control at least one motor used to reposition a seat assembly within an automotive vehicle. The electronic control unit comprises a mode manager configured to reposition the seat assembly from a first position to a second position and a performance evaluation module configured to monitor...