US Patent Issued to Public Transportation Safety Int'l on Jan. 27 for "Automatically deployable vehicle safety guard" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,071, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Public Transportation Safety Int'l Corp..

"Automatically deployable vehicle safety guard" was invented by Mark B. Barron (Bel Air, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety guard is configured to extend below a body of a vehicle for engaging animate and inanimate objects in order to prevent the objects from going under the vehicle. A detection system is provided, including a plurality of sensors configured to sense objects about the vehicle, and a controller for analyzing for the possibility of at least an animate object going under the vehicle. The analysis can result in repositioning of ...