US Patent Issued to Zoox on May 19 for "Occupant protection system with deployable curtains and airbags" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,630,108, issued on May 19, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Occupant protection system with deployable curtains and airbags" was invented by Markus Jost (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a first expandable curtain, a second expandable curtain, a third expandable curtain, a first airbag, and a second airbag disposed in the roof of the vehicle. The first expandable curtain, the second expandable curtain, the third expandable curtain, the first airbag, and the second airbag are selectively deployable from a stowed configuration to a deployed configuration. The third expandable curtain coupl...