US Patent Issued to REE AUTOMOTIVE on March 18 for "Vehicle door system and method of operation" (British, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,918, issued on March 18, was assigned to REE AUTOMOTIVE LTD (Kibbutz Glil Yam, Israel).

"Vehicle door system and method of operation" was invented by Amos Boaz (Kibbutz Glil-Yam, Israel) and Andrea Di Francescantonio (Leamington Spa, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle comprises a side wall shaped to define a door opening and a door-exclusion zone. The door-exclusion zone has a maximum height that is higher than a bottom edge of the door opening and lower than a top edge of the door opening. The vehicle also includes a rail joined to a major surface of the side wall, an arm assembly pivotably anchored at a first e...