US Patent Issued to Marquardt on April 29 for "Seat monitoring system and method for position determination" (German, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,033, issued on April 29, was assigned to Marquardt GmbH (Rietheim-Weilheim, Germany).

"Seat monitoring system and method for position determination" was invented by Joerg Fischer (Donaueschingen, Germany), Daniel Hoerr (Oxford, Mich.), Antoine Bacle (Chauray, France) and Wolfgang Stehle (Renquishausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat monitoring system for monitoring a state of at least one seat arrangeable in a vehicle's interior and determining the position of the seat in the interior. The monitoring system has a control module, two sending modules signally connected to the control module, and at least one seat module a...