US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Sept. 9 for "Method for operating an identification device of a seat, as well as an identification device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,801, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating an identification device of a seat, as well as an identification device" was invented by Marco Beron (Gaertringen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an identification device of a seat of a motor vehicle, in which an identification of a child car seat or an adult on the seat is carried out by an electronic computing device, and in which, depending on the identification, an airbag apparatus of the seat is activated, and in which a relative variance is determined from a ratio of a pressure variance of a...