US Patent Issued to NURO on Sept. 30 for "Methods and apparatus for vehicle motion mitigation during impact" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,942, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for vehicle motion mitigation during impact" was invented by Daniel Jason Ratner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a method includes identifying a condition relating to an impact on a vehicle by an object, the vehicle including at least one anchor mechanism, the at least one anchor mechanism configured to anchor the vehicle to a surface. The method also includes determining whether the condition indicates that the anchor mechanism is to be deployed, and deploying the anchor mechanism when it is dete...