US Patent Issued to Toyota motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Jan. 13 for "Latches and latch systems for vehicle seats and vehicle seats" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,111, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Toyota motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Latches and latch systems for vehicle seats and vehicle seats" was invented by Nicholas J. Schutzman (Canton, Mich.), Vikas Bhatia (South Lyon, Mich.) and Yi-Ru C. Sosnowski (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch for a vehicle seat includes a latch body and a bracket having a plate defining a pivot point and a slot is provided. The latch body is pivotably coupled to the bracket at the pivot point and movably coupled to the bracket at the slot such that the latch...