ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,326, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Safety apparatus for indicating the usage state of a seat belt" was invented by Marek Uszkur (Dublin), Artur Boron (Dublin) and Lukasz Bohdan (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Safety apparatus for indicating the usage state of a seat belt. The seat belt has a strap spooled from a retractor and being lockable to a buckle by a tongue. The apparatus has an indicator unit for mounting to an upper part of a seat. A lock indicator is provided on the indicator unit and, in use, is operably connected to the buckle for indicating a state when the ...