US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY, ZF AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS POLAND SP .Z.O.O. on July 7 for "Airbag for a driver's seat of a vehicle and airbag module, vehicle occupant safety system and vehicle having such an airbag" (Japanese, Polish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,634, issued on July 7, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Aldorf, Germany) and ZF AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS POLAND SP .Z.O.O. (Czestochowa, Poland).

"Airbag for a driver's seat of a vehicle and airbag module, vehicle occupant safety system and vehicle having such an airbag" was invented by Simon Schmid (Heuchlingen, Germany), Pawel Malczak (Czestochowa, Poland) and Hidehisa Takada (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an airbag (100) for a vehicle seat of a, specifically multi-track, vehicle comprising a lateral fabric panel (10) and a main fabric panel (20) the edges (11, 21) of which are sewn up to each ot...