US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Method for detecting impact and activating occupant protection devices" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,013, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Method for detecting impact and activating occupant protection devices" was invented by Laurentiu Stancalie (Timisoara, Romania) and Gabriel-Cosmin Stoican (Sanandrei, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting impact and activating occupant protection devices, in which at least one acceleration signal from at least one acceleration sensor is compared with a triggering threshold. In this case, at least one environmental sensor for detecting an imminent impact and for determining at least one parameter of ...