ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,891, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Deployable vehicle brace" was invented by S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly including a vehicle battery tray. The assembly includes a track fixed relative to the vehicle battery tray. The track is elongated along a cross-vehicle axis. The assembly includes a brace slideably engaged with the track. The brace is slidable along the track relative to the vehicle battery tray along the cross-vehicle axis in a vehicle-outboard directi...