US Patent Issued to Toyoda Gosei on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle airbag module including tethered deployment guide" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,659, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co. LTD. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Vehicle airbag module including tethered deployment guide" was invented by Roy Peter Deutschmann (South Lyon, Mich.), Brandon Dean Streeter (Howell, Mich.), Alexandra Marie Lazaros (Northville, Mich.), Srinivas Krishnan (Troy, Mich.) and Roland Dominic Furtado (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag module includes a housing and an inflatable cushion structured to be received in the housing. A deployment guide is attached to the housing and is structured to be deployable from the housing to a deployed condition to guide the inflatable cushion ...