US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on July 1 for "Systems and methods for actuating a vehicle hood" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,184, issued on July 1, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for actuating a vehicle hood" was invented by William Kirk Robinson (Newport Beach, Calif.), Marcus Edward Merideth (Irvine, Calif.), Brendan White (Irvine, Calif.) and Suhant Ranga (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may be used to release a hood of a vehicle. In one or more implementations, the vehicle detects a pedestrian and the apparatus releases the hood. The apparatus may include a biasing component that, when released, provides a force to another component to release the hood. In order to release the bia...