US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Headlamp protector unit having a deflector configured to move a vehicle fender" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,222, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Headlamp protector unit having a deflector configured to move a vehicle fender" was invented by Bernd Linden (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany), Bert Niessen (Heimbach, Germany), Jana Meuleman (Cologne, Germany), Gregor Extra (Julich-Barmen, Germany), Ilja Buerkle (Cologne, Germany), Ines Steinke (Odenthal, Germany), Stefan Boennemann (Cologne, Germany) and Wilhelm Heger (Pulheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus include a housing, a headlamp comprising at least a lens portion fixed to the housing at a connection in...