ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,415, issued on April 8, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).
"Airbag fabric" was invented by Anton Fischer (Schechingen-Leinweiler, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airbag fabric for an airbag comprises a mounting area (22) for mounting the airbag. The mounting area (22) includes a mounting hole (24), a load portion (26) which is adjacent to the mounting hole (24) in a load direction (B), and a transition portion (28) which is adjacent to the mounting hole (24) against the load direction (B). Furthermore, the load portion (26) and the transition portion (28) include different weaves. The fabric in t...