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Article: New York Inventor Develops Motor Vehicle Seat Assembly
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 5, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- Benjamin Malerba of Rocky Point, N.Y., has developed a massaging motor vehicle seat assembly.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle seat assembly has a seat body including a seat base portion and a seat back portion. A swivel mechanism moves the seat body between a first position for entering or exiting the vehicle and a second position for operating or traveling in the vehicle and includes a weight sensor and a motor for rotating the seat body. When a vehicle door is opened, the motor rotates the seat body into the first position and when the weight sensor detects the presence of an occupant, the motor rotates the seat body into ...