US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 22 for "Automobile with rack in the cargo space" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,743, issued on April 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Automobile with rack in the cargo space" was invented by Ilya Popov (Aachen, Germany), Hendrik Berger (Aachen, Germany), Michael Herbert Oelscher (Bergheim, Germany), Andreas Hegerath (Bergheim, Germany), Marcel Grein (Geilenkirchen, Germany) and Jeroen Lem (Wittem, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automobile having a cargo space, a rear door opening for accessing the cargo space and a door pillar which delimits the rear door opening. The vehicle has a rack which in a stowed state is arranged entirely in the cargo space and is at lea...