Patents by Inventor Samantha Lynne Schoell

Samantha Lynne Schoell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Occupant protection system and method including seatback
    Patent number: 11685329
    Abstract: A seat for a vehicle may include a seatback including one or more inflatable bladders that may be configured to deploy in response to a triggering signal indicative of a change of velocity, collision, or predicted collision event. As at least a portion of the back of an occupant of the seat pushes against a front surface of the seatback due to the event, the one or more inflatable bladders compress at least partially the comfortable foam or comfort material in the seatback and expedite engagement of the energy absorbing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Nirmal Muralidharan, Markus Jost, David Maurice Libeaut, Samantha Lynne Schoell
  • Multipurpose seatback bladder system for crash safety and lumbar support
    Patent number: 11623597
    Abstract: A seat for a vehicle may include a seatback including one or more inflatable bladders that may be configured to provide adjustable lumbar support and to deploy in response to a triggering event signal indicative of a change of velocity, collision, or predicted collision event. One or more inflatable bladders may be configured to be independently controllable and configured to provide adjustable lumbar support at a region of the seatback during normal vehicle operation. Moreover, when at least a portion of the back of an occupant of the seat pushes against a front surface of the seatback due to the event, the one or more inflatable bladders may be configured to compress at least partially a comfort foam or comfort material in the seatback and expedite engagement of the energy absorbing material with the occupant's back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Jost, Nirmal Muralidharan, Alexandre Nunes, Haley Riesenberg, Samantha Lynne Schoell
  • OCCUPANT PROTECTION SYSTEM AND METHOD INCLUDING SEATBACK
    Publication number: 20220314918
    Abstract: A seat for a vehicle may include a seatback including one or more inflatable bladders that may be configured to deploy in response to a triggering signal indicative of a change of velocity, collision, or predicted collision event. As at least a portion of the back of an occupant of the seat pushes against a front surface of the seatback due to the event, the one or more inflatable bladders compress at least partially the comfortable foam or comfort material in the seatback and expedite engagement of the energy absorbing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nirmal Muralidharan, Markus Jost, David Maurice Libeaut, Samantha Lynne Schoell