ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,374, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Safety apparatus" was invented by Zoran Radivojevic (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Hongwei Li (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: a driver for driving a membrane of a gas-retaining chamber to induce vibrations in the membrane in a first mode of operation, wherein said membrane is configured to surround at least part of a device; and an activator for activating a rapid expander in a second mode of operation, wherein the expander comprises an expandable foam that is conf...