ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,461, issued on July 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Cable-guided airbag inflatable across door opening" was invented by S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle body includes a door opening frame including a sill and a front portion and a rear portion each extending upwardly from the sill. The door opening frame has a top portion extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis from the front portion to the rear portion. An airbag is mounted to the sill. A front cable and a rear cable are eac...