ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,870, issued on May 27, was assigned to HORNLING INDUSTRIAL INC. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Webbing height adjusting unit and 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 and a webbing height adjusting unit thereof is applied in a three-point seat belt system. The webbing height adjusting unit has an adjuster base, a slider, an elastic member for actuating the adjuster base and the slider to clamp an object, and an outer shell disposed on the adjuster base. The webbing height adjusting device has a suppleme...