US Patent Issued to Hyundai Mobis on July 21 for "Roof airbag for vehicle" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,355, issued on July 21, was assigned to Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Roof airbag for vehicle" was invented by Seok Min Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Dong Young Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Dong Joon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A roof airbag for a vehicle includes an airbag module arranged on a roof adjacent a windshield glass of the vehicle and including an airbag chamber, and a plurality of tethers arranged in the airbag chamber in a manner of crossing each other, and each tether having a first end connected to a fixed point of the airbag module and a second end connected to an inner...