US Patent Issued to Automotive Safety Research on April 7 for "System for mitigating the severity of motor vehicle crashes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,863, issued on April 7, was assigned to Automotive Safety Research Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

"System for mitigating the severity of motor vehicle crashes" was invented by William Broadhead (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ted Zinke (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that reduces forces imparted to a vehicle occupant in a collision, including a seat and integrated seatbelt system, a slider mechanism along which the seat can be moved rapidly, a device to provide extremely rapid acceleration of the seat along the slider mechanism, and a mechanism to resist seat motion opposite to that of the impact force in an...