ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,969, issued on July 29, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Occupant protection device for vehicle" was invented by Mitsuharu Yoshikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection device for a vehicle including a seat on which an occupant is seated includes: a push up mechanism configured to push up an outer side part of a seat surface of the seat, in a vehicle width direction, relative to an inner side part of the seat surface; a pushing mechanism configured to push at least a shoulder of the occupant seated on the seat from an outer side toward an inner side in the vehicle width direction; an in-vehicle sensor c...