US Patent Issued to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on Dec. 23 for "Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable protection device with rough terrain and airborne detection" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,070, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for controlling an actuatable protection device with rough terrain and airborne detection" was invented by Charles A. Bartlett (Commerce Township, Mich.), Andreas Fleckner (Radolfzell, Germany), Harald Pfriender (Radolfzell, Germany), Kiran Balasubramanian (Canton, Mich.), Huahn-Fern Yeh (Novi, Mich.) and Julian Scherer (Radolfzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a vehicle safety system includes an actuatable controlled restraint (ACR) comprising a seatbelt for restraining a vehicle occupant...