US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Thermal enclosure assembly for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,952, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Thermal enclosure assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Hrecznyj (Livonia, Mich.), Michael M. Azzouz (Farmington, Mich.), Scott Nydam (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Marcos Silva Kondrad (Macomb Township, Mich.) and Kevin Wayne Preuss (Berkley, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermal enclosure assembly for a vehicle includes a container disposed in a compartment of the vehicle that selectively couples with a wall of the compartment. The container is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. A tray couples with the...