ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,395, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Side impact protection assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Fredrik Heurlin (Gothenburg, Sweden), Magnus Bjorklund (Gothenburg, Sweden), Peter Setterberg (Partille, Sweden), Peter Adolfsson (Gothenburg, Sweden), Katarina Bohman (Gothenburg, Sweden), Jonas Osth (Gothenburg, Sweden), Andreas Carlsson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Johan Rosenberg (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A collision protection system for a vehicle, the collision protection system including a seat having a seat back and at least one lateral support coupled to the seat b...