US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Jan. 13 for "Protection device for a motor car, in particular for a passenger car, and a method for operating such a protection device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,112, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Protection device for a motor car, in particular for a passenger car, and a method for operating such a protection device" was invented by Julien Richert (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protection device of a motor car includes a seat system which has a seat and a backrest. A seat belt is assigned to the seat. The seat belt has a belt webbing where a person sitting on the seat is restrainable by the belt webbing. A blocking device is switchable between a released state in which the blocking device allows movement of the belt ...