ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,861, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SUBARU Corp. (Tokyo).
"Vehicle external airbag device for vehicle" was invented by Hayato Aiuchi (Tokyo), Yuka Abe (Tokyo) and Daisuke Ototsuji (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle external airbag device for a vehicle includes a vehicle external airbag which is deployable rearward of the vehicle from between a nose in the vehicle and a front glass of a cabin of the vehicle and over the front glass with a high-pressure gas of an inflator. The vehicle external airbag includes: a central bag deploying in a vehicle width direction; a right bag joined to a right side of the central bag an...