ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,093, issued on March 18, was assigned to HORNLING INDUSTRIAL INC. (Tainan, Taiwan).
"Webbing height adjusting device" was invented by Liang-Hsiung Wang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chia-Chun Chu (Tainan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A webbing height adjusting device connected to a main webbing extending out from a webbing retractor of a seat belt system of a vehicle has a shock absorbing component and a webbing height adjusting unit. The shock absorbing component has a D-loop, a supplementary webbing, and an elastic element connected to the supplementary webbing for shock absorbing. The webbing height adjusting unit has an adjuster...