US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Vehicle-hood assembly including an energy absorber" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,921, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle-hood assembly including an energy absorber" 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: "A vehicle includes a windshield and a vehicle hood. The vehicle includes an energy absorber fixed to the vehicle hood. The energy absorber is releasable from a compressed position to an uncompressed position. The energy absorber is spaced from the windshield in the compressed position and abuts the windshield in the uncompressed position. Th...