US Patent Issued to TUSIMPLE on July 1 for "Removeable foot holds in a truck cab for an autonomous vehicle" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,191, issued on July 1, was assigned to TUSIMPLE INC. (San Diego).

"Removeable foot holds in a truck cab for an autonomous vehicle" was invented by Mohammad Poorsartep (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autonomous vehicle (AV) security system comprising an autonomous vehicle (AV) having a vehicle sensor subsystem, vehicle drive subsystems, an in-vehicle control computer, and vehicle drive subsystems comprising an actuator mechanism configured to receive one or more commands, from an oversight system, for extending or retracting a stairs assembly, where the oversight system transmits the one or more commands to the aut...