ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,845, issued on July 28, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).
"Seat-mounted airbag device" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan), Tatsuya Hashido (Aichi-ken, Japan) and Yu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat-mounted airbag device including an inflator that is provided at a vehicle seat and that ejects gas during a vehicle collision; and an airbag including an airbag body that, by being supplied with gas ejected from the inflator, moves toward a seat front side through between a head of a passenger seated on a vehicle seat and a ceiling of a vehicle ca...