US Patent Issued to GM Cruise Holdings on July 21 for "Smart vehicle floor sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,422, issued on July 21, was assigned to GM Cruise Holdings LLC (San Francisco).

"Smart vehicle floor sensor" was invented by Matthew Jones (Oakland, Calif.) and Nigel Rodrigues (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus consistent with the present disclosure may use a plurality of force sensing devices that allow a computer of an autonomous vehicle (AV) to identify locations within the AV where particular objects reside. These force sensing devices may allow the AV computer to identify how much a particular object weights and identify whether an object has moved based on a location where a particular amou...