US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on April 21 for "Protection device for a car, in particular a passenger car, and method for operating such a protection device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,114, issued on April 21, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Protection device for a car, in particular a passenger car, and method for operating such a protection device" was invented by Dejan Bugarcic (Weinstadt, Germany) and Eric Gaertner (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device for a car has a seat system arranged in the interior chamber of the car with at least one seat for a person, a steering handle that can be actuated by the person sitting on the seat to cause cornering of the car, and at least one airbag which, in the event of an accident, can be filled with a gas and...