ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,535, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Anti-submarining seat system" was invented by Fredrik Heurlin (Gothenburg, Sweden), Magnus Vilhelm Bjorklund (Torslanda, Sweden), Johan Magnus Rosenberg (Lerum, Sweden), Andreas Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Katarina Bohman (Lerum, Sweden), Peter Setterberg (Partille, Sweden), Jonas Osth (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Peter Adolfsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding controlling respective positions of a seat back and seat base to mitigate the risk of a vehicle occupant submarining in the even...