US Patent Issued to Rivian IP Holdings on Nov. 25 for "Vehicle door assembly with a deployable structural pillar" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,276, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC (Irvine, Calif.).

"Vehicle door assembly with a deployable structural pillar" was invented by Raghav Jaswal (Irvine, Calif.), Philipp J. Wolf (Irvine, Calif.) and Mark Andrew Jones (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door assembly including: a first door; a second door, wherein both the first door and the second door are pivotable between an open configuration and a closed configuration with respect to a chassis of a vehicle; and a structural member, wherein the structural member is deployable from the first door and behind the second door at a juncti...