ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,871, issued on May 27, was assigned to AUTOLIV DEVELOPMENT AB (Vargarda, Sweden).
"Belt retractor" was invented by Arndt Sohnchen (Hamburg, Germany), Ronald Jabusch (Elmshorn, 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: "A belt retractor comprising a belt reel rotatably mounted in a frame securable to a vehicle and on which a seatbelt can be wound, and a blocking device arranged on a mechanical side of the belt reel and which blocks the belt reel when a specified seatbelt pull-out acceleration and/or a vehicle deceleration is...