US Patent Issued to Magna Seating on Sept. 9 for "Systems and methods to monitor seats for diagnostics, prognostics and degradation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,759, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Magna Seating Inc. (Aurora, Canada).

"Systems and methods to monitor seats for diagnostics, prognostics and degradation" was invented by Hanlong Yang (Novi, Mich.), NandaKishor R. Chamakuri (Pune, India) and Shriram B. Agalave (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for detecting a fault in a gear system for repositioning a seat assembly in an automotive vehicle. The gear system includes a gear train operatively coupled to a motor. The method includes the steps of measuring a current drawn by the motor to reposition the seat assembly, recording the current over time as...