US Patent Issued to Zoox on July 8 for "Impact detection on vehicle underside" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,041, issued on July 8, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Impact detection on vehicle underside" was invented by Gildas Laurent Pascal Delbeke (Stratford-Upon-Avon, Great Britain), MacKenzie Cunningham (San Mateo, Calif.) and Haley Riesenberg (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impact with an underside of a battery enclosure of a vehicle is classified based at least on processing impact sensor outputs to generate battery impact classification data. The impact sensor outputs are received from an impact sensor arrangement associated with the underside of the battery enclosure, the impact sensor arrange...