US Patent Issued to FCA US on March 18 for "Method and system to control airbag deployment for a pregnant occupant" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,087, issued on March 18, was assigned to FCA US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"Method and system to control airbag deployment for a pregnant occupant" was invented by Stephanie R Beck (Pinckney, Mich.), Anthony N Gorney (Oxford, Mich.) and Omer Kiyani (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for controlling airbag deployment in a vehicle. The method may include the steps of receiving an input that a driver of the vehicle is pregnant, and changing an airbag deployment setting to account for a space reduction between the driver and an interior panel portion of the vehicle. In one implementation, the interior pane...