US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Locking control system for accessory management" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,824, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Locking control system for accessory management" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Mathew B. Rutman (Westland, Mich.), Eric Scott Levine (Novi, Mich.), William Wurz (San Francisco), Michael Lozano (Detroit) and Jeff Sturges (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking control system and method include providing a base plate with an attachment interface and attaching at least one accessory to the base plate via the attachment interface. A user profile is provided that comprises one or more classes of autho...