ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,204, issued on June 30, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Load-bearing belt retractor" was invented by Bengt Dahlquist (Alingsas, Sweden), Arndt Sohnchen (Hamburg, Germany), Lennart Pettersson (Bankeryd, Sweden), Ronald Jabusch (Elmshorn, Germany), Hans-Jorg Langhoff (Bonningstedt, Germany), Antto-Christian Glasser (Hasloh, Germany), Alexandru Cirstea (Elmshorn, Germany) and Jens Ehlers (Horst, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a load-bearing seat belt retractor for a seat structure of a vehicle seat. The seat belt retractor has two housing halves, between which functional modul...