ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,313, issued on April 14, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Vehicle seat" was invented by Jens Ehlers (Horst, Germany), Andre Gajek (Norderstedt, Germany), Johann Unger (Rohrbach, Germany), Christoph Grundheber (Gaimersheim, Germany) and Tim Schiesser (Irschenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a vehicle seat for a motor vehicle, comprising a backrest (10), a seat (11) and an airbag device, wherein the airbag device comprises at least one airbag module (12) and at least one arrestor strap mechanism, wherein the at least one airbag module (12) comprises at least one airbag (1...