ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,508, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Fox Factory Inc. (Duluth, Ga.).
"Orientationally flexible bump sensor" was invented by Everet Owen Ericksen (Woodland, Calif.), Andrew Diao (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Mike Fraguglia (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Evan Peterson (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and James T. Pickett (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orientationally flexible bump sensor is disclosed. The system includes at least one bump sensor mounted to a vehicle, the at least one bump sensor comprising at least two axes of measurement. A computer processor is configured to evaluate the at least two axes of measurement to determine whi...