US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on May 27 for "Method of detecting use of a lap belt only routing of a combined lap belt/shoulder belt seat belt system in a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,873, issued on May 27, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Method of detecting use of a lap belt only routing of a combined lap belt/shoulder belt seat belt system in a vehicle" was invented by Scott D. Thomas (Novi, Mich.), Sam Jamal (Dearborn, Mich.) and Arjun Khanna (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting improper routing of a seat belt having a lap belt portion and a shoulder belt portion by an occupant of a vehicle includes detecting a movement of the seat belt indicating that the shoulder belt portion was placed behind a back of the occupant, and providing a warning indictin...