US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY, ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN on Sept. 23 for "Belt strap and method for producing a belt strap" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,738, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany) and ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG (Friedrichshafen, Germany).

"Belt strap and method for producing a belt strap" was invented by Christian Werner (Volkach, Germany), Victor Gonzalez Mora (Dittelbrunn, Germany) and Viktorija Mecnika (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to webbing (10) for a seatbelt system of an automotive vehicle, comprising a webbing body (12), at least one electrical conductor (14), and comprising a flexible printed circuit (16) arranged on the webbing body (12), wherein the at least one electr...