ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,943, issued on Sept. 30.
"Vehicle prevention airbag system" was invented by Chia-Wei Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle prevention airbag system includes an airbag prevention device and a threat detection device including a collision assessment unit and a sensor module for detecting threat objects or obstacles approaching the vehicle and to assess the collision probability between the threat object or obstacle and the vehicle. The airbag prevention device includes an airbag expansion controller and an external airbag module. When collision probability between the threat object and the vehicle is equal t...