US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Seat bottom mounted airbag assembly" (Massachusetts, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,921, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Seat bottom mounted airbag assembly" was invented by Raed Essa EL-Jawahri (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Marcos Silva Kondrad (Macomb Township, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seat includes a seat bottom and a seat back. The seat bottom extends in a seat-forward direction from the seat bottom. An airbag is mounted to the seat bottom and is inflatable from the seat bottom to an inflated position. The airbag in the inflated position includes a first portion extending in the seat-forward direction from the seat bottom, a second portion extending from...