US Patent Issued to Zoox on Oct. 7 for "Occupant protection system including expandable curtain and/or expandable bladder" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,657, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Occupant protection system including expandable curtain and/or expandable bladder" was invented by Markus Jost (San Mateo, Calif.), Andrew John Piper (Palo Alto, Calif.), Josh Alexander Jimenez (San Francisco) and Timothy David Kentley-Klay (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An occupant protection system for a vehicle may include an expandable curtain and/or an expandable bladder configured to be expanded from a stowed state to a deployed state. In the deployed state, the expandable curtain may include first and second sides configured to extend alo...