US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Airbags inflatable vehicle forward of bumper" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,813, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Airbags inflatable vehicle forward of bumper" was invented by S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and Saeed D. Barbat (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle bumper and a plurality of airbag assemblies each fixed directly to the vehicle bumper. Each airbag assembly includes an airbag inflatable below the vehicle bumper and upwardly vehicle-forward of the vehicle bumper from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The airbag assemblie...