ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,769, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Head impact energy absorbing bracket" was invented by Goutham Shanmuga Sundaram (Foster City, Calif.), Michal Jan Swiniarski (Brentwood, Great Britain), Dillon Lawrence Arellano (San Mateo, Calif.) and Maria Fernanda Villanueva Ochoa (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy absorbing member may be positioned between a passenger and a solid member to mitigate impact of the passenger with the solid member, for instance, during a collision. The energy absorbing member can include a base and a biased member extending from and biased relative t...