ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,482, issued on June 17, was assigned to BOS GMBH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).
"Winding assembly and method for producing such a winding assembly" was invented by Markus Hintennach (Uhingen, Germany) and Carolin Gunther (Reutlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding assembly for a protective device of a motor vehicle, and a method for producing such a winding assembly. Such a winding assembly includes a form-stable winding shaft and a flexible winding web held on the winding shaft such that it can be wound up and unwound. The winding shaft is formed by a form-stabilized wound-up first portion of a flexible sheet-form...