US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 5 for "Vehicle airbag assembly with tethered airbag" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,617,363, issued on May 5, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle airbag assembly with tethered airbag" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.) and Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a dash, an inflator supported by the dash, and an airbag supported by the dash. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position is selectively deployable to one of a first position or a second position spaced away from the dash relative to the first position. An inflation tube fluidly connec...