US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on April 21 for "Seatbelt retractor having an electrically actuatable blocking device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,123, issued on April 21, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Seatbelt retractor having an electrically actuatable blocking device" was invented by Anja Maleki (Glinde, Germany), Florian Kuenzler (Wedel, Germany), Philip Rings (Norderstedt, Germany), Fooke Kutscher (Elmshorn, Germany), Christian Kapsalis (Hamburg, Germany) and Arne Bargmann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatbelt retractor with a seatbelt shaft and a control cam mounted thereon, and an electrically actuatable blocking device, the electrically actuatable blocking device stopping the control cam with respect to the seatbelt s...