US Patent Issued to Daicel on Oct. 14 for "Occupant protection device and occupant protection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,241, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Daicel Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Occupant protection device and occupant protection method" was invented by Eric Aliwarga (Tokyo), Kenji Fukumoto (Tokyo) and Masayuki Yamazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection device includes a first sensor configured to output vehicle information indicating a traveling state of a vehicle and a situation around the vehicle, a second sensor configured to output occupant information indicating a seating state of an occupant, a stimulus application unit that is to be worn by the occupant and is configured to apply a stimulus to the occupant...