ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,320, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).
"Heatable belt strap, and seat belt system" was invented by Viktorija Mecnika (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany) and Martina Rausch (Remshalden, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a heatable webbing (12) for a seatbelt system (14) of an automotive vehicle, wherein the webbing (12) comprises plural heatable sections (24, 26, 28) each extending over different longitudinal portions of the webbing (12), wherein at least one heating conductor (18, 20, 22, 44, 46, 64, 66, 68) is associated with each heatable section (24, 26, 28) in s...