US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for adaptively adjusting a seat belt load limiter" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,057, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for adaptively adjusting a seat belt load limiter" was invented by Mizuho Takayama (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Gurmeet Singh (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Phouvadol P. Khouphongsy (Saline, Mich.), Umesh Gandhi (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Koray Benli (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to adaptively adjusting the load limit of a seat belt load limiter. In one embodiment, an adaptive load-l...