ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,976, issued on April 14, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Safety system and method for an internal cabin of a vehicle" was invented by Kai Schwarz (Hesse, Germany), Miriam Cornel (Aschaffenburg, Germany), Lukas Biesalski (Darmstadt, Germany), Johannes Kleudgen (Darmstadt, Germany) and Michael Christian Buddefeld (Neu-Isenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method include one or more sensors configured to detect one or more forces in relation to one or more components within an internal cabin of a vehicle. An imaging device is configured to acquire one or more images of the internal cabin of t...