US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 26 for "Vehicle airbag system with variable deployment" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,026, issued on May 26, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Vehicle airbag system with variable deployment" was invented by Manuel Forero Rueda (Royal Oak, Mich.), Chin-Hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.), Mitesh Lalwala (Sterling Heights, Mich.), Ryan Aaron Gellner (Livonia, Mich.) and Nick Hoffman (Swartz Creek, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety system for an occupant of a vehicle includes an airbag selectably inflatable by an inflator operably connected to the airbag, one or more deployment mechanisms operably connected to the airbag to control deployment of the airbag, and a controller operably connected t...