ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,847, issued on July 28, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden) and SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).

"Seatbelt retractor attachment structure and manufacturing method of retractor bracket" was invented by Yuto Ishibashi (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroyuki Saitou (Yokohama, Japan), Kenji Betsui (Yokohama, Japan), Kaisei Ryu (Yokohama, Japan), Takanori Nakazawa (Tokyo), Hidekazu Furuno (Tokyo), Takashi Kamibayashi (Tokyo) and Shigemi Haruta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a seatbelt retractor attachment structure, a seatbelt retractor is fixed to a vehicle body via a retractor bracket. The retractor bracket includes a fixing po...