ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,025, issued on May 26, was assigned to ZF Friedrichshafen AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Vehicle safety system implementing algorithm for early sensing of high-speed full overlap crash events" was invented by Charles A. Bartlett (Commerce Township, Mich.), Pawel Koziel (Czstochowa, Poland), Michal Duchowski (Czstochowa, Poland), Artur Fijalkowski (Czstochowa, Poland), Kiran Balasubramanian (Canton, Mich.) and Maciej Rejer (Konopiska, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling an actuatable safety device for protecting an occupant of a vehicle includes sensing a left upfront vehicle acceleration via a left upfront ...