US Patent Issued to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT on Dec. 9 for "Load-bearing seatbelt retractor and seat structure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,836, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Load-bearing seatbelt retractor and seat structure" was invented by Arndt Sohnchen (Hamburg, Germany), Ronald Jabusch (Elmshorn, Germany), Hans-Jorg Langhoff (Bonningstedt, Germany), Antto-Christian Glaesser (Hasloh, Germany), Alexandru Cirstea (Elmshorn, Germany) and Jens Ehlers (Horst, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a load-bearing seatbelt retractor for a seat structure of a vehicle seat, the seatbelt retractor having two housing halves between which functional modules of the seatbelt retractor are disposed. One functi...