US Patent Issued to CANOO TECHNOLOGIES on May 5 for "Horizontally inflating passenger front air bag system" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,366, issued on May 5, was assigned to CANOO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Torrance, Calif.).

"Horizontally inflating passenger front air bag system" was invented by Vidyadhar V. Katkar (East Brunswick, N.J.), Sangjoon Han (Fullerton, Calif.) and Sohel Merchant (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular airbag deployment system includes an airbag storage chamber, the airbag storage chamber disposed at a location within a vehicle. The vehicular airbag deployment system also includes an airbag configured to be stored within the airbag storage chamber when the airbag is in a deflated state. The airbag is further configure...