ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,209, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZF AUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH (Alfdorf, Germany).
"Method for producing a belt strap, and a belt strap" was invented by Martina Rausch (Remshalden, Germany) and Viktorija Mecnika (Schwabisch Gmund, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention describes a method of manufacturing a webbing (11) for a safety system of an automotive vehicle, wherein, in one method step, a webbing body (12) is woven, wherein at least one electric conductor (16) is woven into the webbing body (12), and wherein, in a further method step, the webbing body (12) is passed through a calender (24), with the webbing bo...