MUMBAI, India, July 5 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202311085826 A) filed by Mercedes-Benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, Germany, on Dec. 15, for 'an apparatus for providing retractable seat belt in a vehicle and method thereof.'
Inventor(s) include Ranjitha Sudharsan; Rakshith Ramesh; Milton Steam Dias; Athreya Pai; and Dixit Raghu.
The application for the patent was published on July 4, under issue no. 27/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "An apparatus (100) and a method for providing retractable seat belt (120) in a rear middle seat (110) of a vehicle is disclosed. The apparatus (100) comprises a sliding mechanism (130) configured with a retractable seat belt (120)...