ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,265, issued on Oct. 14.
"Mechanisms for moving a pod out of a vehicle" was invented by Ho Keung Tse (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle with a pod detachably secured to a planar surface chassis thereof, when in hazard escaping or transferring the pod to another platform, a control system will cause the pod to be detached from the chassis, and causing wheels to be moved out of wheel recesses which is disposed partly in the pod, so as to provide some freedom for the pod to be moved laterally, by a side impact, or to enable the pod to be moved on the chassis partly or completely out of the vehicle longitudinal...