US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Airbag assembly for child-restraint system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,266, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Airbag assembly for child-restraint system" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle seat having a seatback and a seat bottom defining an occupant-seating area. The vehicle includes an airbag housing having a first arm fixed to the seatback and a second arm rotatable from the seatback toward the seat bottom adjacent the occupant-seating area. An airbag extends from the first arm to the second arm. The ...