US Patent Issued to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility US on March 24 for "System and method for operating a vehicle access point" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,400, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUMOVIO Autonomous Mobility US LLC (Auburn Hills, Mich.).

"System and method for operating a vehicle access point" was invented by Peter Lamprecht (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Nizar Ahamed (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an access point to a vehicle includes moving a retractable sensor from a retracted position to an extended position. An area surrounding the retractable sensor is monitored for at least one object within the area surrounding the retractable sensor. The retractable sensor is moved from the extended position to the retracted positio...