ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,168, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Vehicle passenger protecting device" was invented by Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Akira Kaneko (Toyota, Japan) and Tatsuya Hashido (Nishikasugai-gun Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle passenger protecting device includes: a side airbag installed at least in a vehicle transverse direction outer side end portion of a headrest of a vehicle seat, and configured to, due to gas supplied at a time of a side collision, inflate and expand toward a vehicle front side at least at a vehicle transverse direction outer side of a head of a pass...