US Patent Issued to Volvo Car on Oct. 21 for "Handling excursion far-side load cases without use of a tunnel console" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,923, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Handling excursion far-side load cases without use of a tunnel console" was invented by Sebastian Rutelin (Gothenburg, Sweden), John Eriksson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Michaela Kjellander (Gothenburg, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to handling excursion far-side load cases without use of a tunnel console. A corresponding airbag arrangement for a vehicle can comprise a driver area and a passenger area. The airbag arrangement can comprise a first airbag configured to inflate in the passenger area. The airbag arrangement can furth...