ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,334, issued on June 2, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"System and vehicle" was invented by Katharina Burger (Regensburg, Germany), Willibald Reitmeier (Hemau / Hohenschambach, Germany) and Daniel Luszek (Sinzing, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include a system for a vehicle having a body a door held on the body and pivotable about a pivot axis. An example includes: an obstacle identification system to detect a collision event occurring between the door and an object within surroundings of the vehicle; and a sensor pivotably held on the body, the sensor having a field of vis...