US Patent Issued to Transportation IP Holdings on Dec. 2 for "Door monitoring system and method" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,914, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Transportation IP Holdings LLC (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Door monitoring system and method" was invented by Karl J. Kobel (Wildwood, Ill.), Ikechi Olakunle Emelogu (Gurnee, Ill.), Afsar Ali (Buffalo Grove, Ill.) and Naveenkumar Ramaiah (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door monitoring system may include an optical sensor that may generate sensor signals indicative of a field of view of the optical sensor. The field of view may include at least part of an interior vehicle floor in front of a vehicle door. The system also may include controller that receives the sensor signals and that de...