ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,236, issued on Oct. 28, 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 is a predetermined threshold or higher, 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, a vent controller configured to open and close a v...