US Patent Issued to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT on Sept. 1 for "Tether mechanism for an airbag module" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,589, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Tether mechanism for an airbag module" was invented by Bernd Jakobs (Nuremberg, Germany), Jorg Haesser (Gaimersheim, Germany), Johann Unger (Dachau, Germany), Oliver Adolph (Moorenweis, Germany) and Marc Schock (Karlsfeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrestor strap mechanism for at least one airbag module having at least one airbag, comprising at least one first arrestor strap arrangement, the first arrestor strap arrangement can be attached to an airbag, at least one second arrestor strap arrangement can be attached to an airbag, and a ...