ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,740, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Adaptive seatbelt geometry comprising a webbing guide" was invented by Tomas Nilsson (Kungsbacka, Sweden), Gert Aldeborg (Uddevalla, Sweden) and Sebastian Karlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding automatically controlling a position of a seat belt located onboard a vehicle, wherein the position is controlled in accordance with physiology of an occupant utilizing the seat belt. By adjusting the position of the seat belt in accordance with the occupant's physiology, the seat belt system c...