ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,772, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Neutron Holdings Inc. (San Francisco).
"Multiple rider detection system" was invented by Yusheng Xu (Kunshan, China), Junjie Zhao (Kunshan, China), Yongjin Zhang (Kunshan, China), Dounan Tang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nan Cao (Troy, Mich.) and Jeh Lokhande (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application describes systems and methods for detecting more than a predetermined number of riders on a vehicle. Embodiments may either infer or directly measure the mass of the user and the vehicle using one or more sensors on the vehicle to calculate the mass using a microprocessor couple...