US Patent Issued to NURO on July 7 for "Rapid deceleration mechanism with sliding carriage" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,641, issued on July 7, was assigned to NURO INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Rapid deceleration mechanism with sliding carriage" was invented by Daniel Jason Ratner (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one aspect, a vehicle includes a body and a rapid deceleration system that is configured to decelerate the body traveling on a road surface. The rapid deceleration system includes at least a first rapid deceleration mechanism coupled to the body, the first rapid deceleration mechanism including a first anchor, a first slider, and a first energetics arrangement configured to propel the at first anchor from the body to...