ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,896, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Airbag apparatus" was invented by Isamu Nagasawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag apparatus includes an airbag configured to be deployed forward of a front of a vehicle body of a vehicle; a collision determiner configured to establish a pre-crash determination when a collision probability with a collision object is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold; and an airbag deployment controller configured to, in response to the pre-crash determination, give to an inflator a command to supply deployment gas to the airbag and deploy the airbag. The airb...