ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,391,206, issued on Aug. 19.
"Side airbag device" was invented by Yuto Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tsutomu Sakurai (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A side airbag device has an airbag cushion with a deployment profile that may readily be controlled and may reliably receive and protect an occupant. The side airbag device has a bag-shaped airbag cushion that utilizes gas supplied from an inflator to expand deploy to a side of a vehicle seat, an interior base material panel of the airbag cushion lower end vicinity is folded back to an opposite side (far side) of an occupant of the vehicle seat and makes friction contact wit...