ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,241, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Detachable seat airbag cover" was invented by Johannes Lindholm (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Jonathan Viktorsson (Torslanda, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various systems and methods are presented regarding implementing a detachable cover over an airbag located in a seat, wherein the airbag is deployed during impact testing to determine operation of the airbag when deployed/installed in a vehicle. The detachable cover can be attached/detached from the seat by a zipper(s), button(s), and any other suitable attachment means. The detachable cover further ...