US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on June 24 for "Occupant protection device for a vehicle, vehicle having at least one occupant protection device, and method for operating an occupant protection device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,781, issued on June 24, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Occupant protection device for a vehicle, vehicle having at least one occupant protection device, and method for operating an occupant protection device" was invented by Jochen Feese (Sindelfingen, Germany), Claus Geisler (Herrenberg, Germany) and Julien Richert (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection device of a vehicle includes a table that is assigned to a vehicle seat. The table is actively movable into an occupant protection position when a collision or a danger of a collision of the vehicle is recognized. I...