ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,771, issued on May 13, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Airbag device for arranging on a backrest part of a moveable seat device of a motor vehicle, and seat device" was invented by Eric Gartner (Stuttgart, Germany), Claus Geisler (Herrenberg, Germany) and Lutz Quarg (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device arranged on a backrest part of a moveable seat device of a motor vehicle includes first and second gas bags. The first gas bag is deployed into a receiving position by a deployment unit of the airbag device responsive to an actuation signal. In the receiving position the fir...