ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,455, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-Ken, Japan).
"Airbag device and occupant protection device" was invented by Toshiki Iwama (Toyota, Japan), Mitsuyoshi Ohno (Miyoshi, Japan), Yu Suzuki (Nagoya, Japan) and Tatsuya Hashido (Aichi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag device includes an inflator that is installed in an upper part of a vehicle seat, and that generates gas in an event of a vehicle collision, an airbag to which the gas from the inflator is supplied, and is inflated and deployed from the upper part of the vehicle seat toward a front side of the vehicle seat, and a diffuser that...