US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Cargo partition locking apparatus for a vehicle" (Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,761, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cargo partition locking apparatus for a vehicle" was invented by Fabio Reis (Salvador, Brazil), Luiz Hurtado (Lauro de Freitas, Brazil), Luiz Kachel (Lauro de Freitas, Brazil), Marcos Juliano Rosaneli (Lauro de Freitas, Brazil) and Paulo Neto (Camacari, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo locking system for a vehicle, the cargo locking system includes a gate and a pivot bracket coupled with the gate. The cargo locking system also includes a latch radially extending from the pivot bracket. The latch is movable between a first position an...