US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 8 for "Vehicle body panel accommodating a deployable electrical system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,402, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle body panel accommodating a deployable electrical system" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Vyas Darshan Shenoy (Canton, Mich.), Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.), Jesse Rene Diephuis (West Bloomfield, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.) and Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle electrical distribution system includes an electrical box having at least one power outlet. The electrical box is configured to be moved between a stowed position where the electrical...