US Patent Issued to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY on Dec. 16 for "Central airbag, and vehicle occupant restraint system having a central airbag" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,994, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).

"Central airbag, and vehicle occupant restraint system having a central airbag" was invented by Dominique Acker (Gschwend, Germany), Kathrin Weinhardt (Mutlangen, Germany) and Jurgen Scherr (Waldstetten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a center airbag (10) of a vehicle occupant restraint system (2) which is provided to be mounted on and/or in a vehicle seat (12) on a side facing another vehicle seat (14), comprising an inner fabric layer (16) and an outer fabric layer (18), wherein the inner fabric layer (16) is conne...