US Patent Issued to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev., ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP on April 15 for "Method for open airway position after a vehicle crash" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,363, issued on April 15, was assigned to Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Dev. Co. Ltd. (Ningbo, China) and ZHEJIANG GEELY HOLDING GROUP Co. LTD. (Zhejiang, China).

"Method for open airway position after a vehicle crash" was invented by Bjorn Jonsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for moving an occupant of a vehicle seat to open airway position after a vehicle crash event. The vehicle seat having a seat cushion, a backrest and a headrest. The method includes detecting occurrence of a vehicle crash event, and moving at least a portion of the backrest and/or headrest backwards and pull...