ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,272, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Load limiting seatbelt retractor" was invented by Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seatbelt retractor includes a frame and a spool having a first end and a second end each rotatably supported by the frame. The spool is elongated on an axis from the first end to the second end. The seatbelt retractor includes a plurality of torsion posts fixed to the frame. The seatbelt retractor includes a locking device operatively coupled between the s...