ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,312, issued on April 14, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Seat-mounted airbag device" was invented by Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Yu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan) and Tatsuya Hashido (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat-mounted airbag device is provided with an airbag including front-and-rear chambers and an airbag main body. At a time of collision of a vehicle, gas jetted out from an inflator is supplied to the front-and-rear chambers, which inflate and expand to a front side along left and right sides of the head of a vehicle occupant. In association with the...