US Patent Issued to Zoox on April 14 for "Vehicle door interface system" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,319, issued on April 14, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Vehicle door interface system" was invented by Auver Cedric Austria (Melbourne, Australia), Michael Moshe Kohen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin Mark Karol (San Francisco), Ishan Sain (San Mateo, Calif.), Amy Chong (San Francisco), Andrew Allen Haskin (San Francisco) and Jingyi Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door interface system for a vehicle door includes a sensor and a visual indicator. The sensor may be a proximity sensor and may be positioned proximate to the visual indicator such that it will detect an object proximate to the proximity ...