US Patent Issued to EVENFLO on July 21 for "Occupant safety restraint system" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,357, issued on July 21, was assigned to EVENFLO COMPANY INC. (Miamisburg, Ohio).

"Occupant safety restraint system" was invented by Jason Kyle McRoberts (Mason, Ohio), Bryan Ray Adams (Beavercreek, Ohio), Eric Dahle (Ludlow Falls, Ohio), Brian Whitt (Dayton, Ohio), Bingqing Zhou (Kunshan, China) and Zhiyong Kuang (Kunshan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is an occupant safety restraint system that dampens forces applied to an occupant by belts used for restraining the occupant in the occupant safety restraint system. Energy dampening structures may be disposed in either a seat back portion of an occupant safety ...