US Patent Issued to ZIBRA on July 29 for "Child seat with seatbelt module for use in shopping carts" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,371,085, issued on July 29, was assigned to ZIBRA LLC (Mooresville, N.C.).

"Child seat with seatbelt module for use in shopping carts" was invented by Michael Milton Sherman (Mooresville, N.C.) and William Lane Ball (Statesville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child seat includes a base and a seatback movable relative thereto between a retracted position, in which the seatback preferably is flush with a top of the base, and an extended position, in which a sitting area of the child seat is exposed for sitting and in which the seatback serves to support a child's back. The seatback of the child seat preferably includes a seat belt ...