ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,133, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Occupant protection apparatus" was invented by Takuya Kaneta (Tokyo), Chooi Chuan Sim (Tokyo), Yuta Goto (Tokyo) and Iyo Hashimoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a contact sensor, an occupant detector, an electromagnetic wave sensor, a control processor, and a protection processor. The contact sensor detects contact of the vehicle. The occupant detector detects whether there is an occupant who is wearing a medical device in the vehicle when the contact sensor detects the contact of the vehicle. Th...