ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,079, issued on July 8, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Method for operating electrical drive units of seat components in a motor vehicle, preferably in a pre-crash case, and system for performing the method" was invented by Bjoern Andrews (Karlsruhe, Germany), Jens Schrader (Baden-Baden, Germany), Jochen Moench (Sinzheim, Germany), Juri Hartmann (Huegelsheim, Germany) and Rainer Berger (Buehl, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating electrical drive units of seat components in a motor vehicle during a detected pre-crash situation. The method moves a passenger to a target position for an i...