US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on Nov. 25 for "Airbag and restraint system control using seat pressure data" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,384, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Airbag and restraint system control using seat pressure data" was invented by Mitesh Lalwala (Troy, Mich.), Chin-Hsu Lin (Troy, Mich.), Nilesh D. Mankame (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Alok Warey (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle airbag and restraint system includes a vehicle seat positioned in a vehicle. At least one pressure sensor is included with the vehicle seat to sense when a user is in contact with the vehicle seat. At least one airbag is opened in response to a vehicle crash event. A controller determines when the user is seat...