US Patent Issued to GM Global Technology Operations on Jan. 13 for "Compliant trigger mechanism for active hood sensor activation" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,170, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Compliant trigger mechanism for active hood sensor activation" was invented by Brandon Dziuda (Detroit) and Troy Kenneth Kleiner (Washington, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicular front fascia system includes an active hood system and a vehicular front fascia. The front fascia includes an exterior body structure providing a leading surface of a vehicle equipped with the vehicular front fascia system, a compliant mechanism disposed interior of the exterior body structure of the vehicle, and a sensor tube disposed within a jaw portion of ...