ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,506, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Rack with trays for plug-in automotive control units" was invented by Jakub Antoni Korta (Cracow, Poland), Tobias Merten (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Peter Reinhold (Gummersbach, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack assembly unit for mounting a control unit to a vehicle rack system is provided; a rack chassis and a tray are configured to receive the control unit for coupling to a vehicle system. The tray is movably coupled to the rack chassis at a coupling mechanism, which provides for movement of the tray relative to the rack chassis ...