ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,785, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Personal impact protection system" was invented by Christian Cavell (Starnberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal impact protection system including a plurality of discrete wearable inflatable items configured to be worn on or around respective parts of a user's body. At least one inflator is configured to produce inflating gas to inflate the inflatable items when worn by the user, and a control system is provided to actuate the inflator in response to an actuation signal to: i) inflation of all of the inflatable items; ii) inflation of ...