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Apple granted patent for a ‘passenger vehicle door and window’

Tuesday May 14, 2019. 04:14 PM , from Mac Daily News
“Apple has been granted a patent (number 10,286,761) for a ‘passenger vehicle door and window,'” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple World Today. “”
Here’s Apple’s summary of the invention:
A passenger vehicle includes a body, a powertrain, a first door, and a second door. The body defines a passenger compartment having an opening. The powertrain propels the passenger vehicle on a public roadway. The first door is movably coupled to the vehicle body to at least partially close the opening.
The first door includes a door structure, which defines a cavity, and a first window that is movable between a lowered position in the cavity and a raised position in which a forward edge thereof is substantially coextensive with a forward end of the cavity. The second door is movably coupled to the vehicle body to at least partially close the opening.
The second door includes a second window having a second forward edge. The rearward edge of the first window at least one of engages the second forward edge or compresses a seal with the second forward edge.
Read more, and see Apple’s patent application illustration, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You know, because Apple’s not planning on building their own vehicles.
https://macdailynews.com/2019/05/14/apple-granted-patent-for-a-passenger-vehicle-door-and-window/
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