US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on May 6 for "Vehicle passenger restraint device and far side airbag folding method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,162, issued on May 6, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi-ken, Japan).

"Vehicle passenger restraint device and far side airbag folding method" was invented by Hideki Takasawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle passenger restraint device includes a left seat and a right seat provided in a vehicle cabin so as to be capable of moving in a vehicle front-rear direction, and a far side airbag that is provided to a vehicle width direction inside portion of a seatback of the right seat and that is configured so as to be inflated and deployed to a vehicle width direction inside of a passenger seated in the right se...