US Patent Issued to Autoliv Development on June 24 for "Device for detecting the presence of an occupant inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,778, issued on June 24, was assigned to Autoliv Development AB (Vargarda, Sweden).

"Device for detecting the presence of an occupant inside the passenger compartment of a vehicle" was invented by Pierre Sabournin (Ecquevilly, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a capacitive device (2) in a motor vehicle for detecting the presence of an occupant inside the vehicle, said device comprising a first electrode (20) separated from a second electrode (21) by a dielectric material (22) so as to form a capacitive sensor, said capacitive sensor being arranged on a surface of a component of the vehicle, a volta...