ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,180, issued on April 29, was assigned to Textron Systems Corp. (Hunt Valley, Md.).
"Utilizing a seat assembly having a set of limit straps to limit deflection" was invented by Wyatt Coleman Huling Jr. (Slidell, La.) and Giovanni Eduardo Sequeira (Abita Springs, La.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle ceiling, a vehicle floor, and a vehicle seat assembly that couples with the vehicle ceiling and the vehicle floor. The vehicle seat assembly includes a seat support that supports a vehicle seat from the vehicle ceiling, a base that forms a slip joint with the seat support from the vehicle floor, and a set of limit ...