ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,371, issued on April 29, was assigned to SOFLEX FURNITURE CO LTD (Tortola, British Virgin Islands).
"Anti-pinch system for an electric seat" was invented by Andy Wang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An anti-pinch system for an electric seat includes a plurality of infrared sensing modules, a seat cushion hose, a footrest hose, a pressure sensor, at least one linear actuator, a central processing unit, a power module and a control module. When the user operates the electric seat to act, the plurality of infrared sensing modules and the pressures sensor synchronously sense whether an obstacle is under the electric seat....