ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,841, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rivian IP Holdings LLC.
"Tonneau cover operation" was invented by Shakshi Himmatramka (Irvine, Calif.), Ivan Swee Choon Lim (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Chaitanya Manoj Shah (Irvine, Calif.), Bhushan Nagarajan (Tustin, Calif.) and Manish Jakhi (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to detect obstruction include detecting, by a sensor, a first parameter that corresponds to a path of traversal of a tonneau cover, determining, based on a comparison between the first parameter and a second parameter, a presence of an obstacle in the path of traversal of the tonneau cover, and...