US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 20 for "Vehicle having deployable pillar mounted table" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,397, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle having deployable pillar mounted table" was invented by Vishal Vinayak Nageshkar (Windsor, Canada), Sangram Tamhankar (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Kevin Wayne Preuss (Ortonville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle including a cabin interior, a pillar support structure at least partially exposed to the cabin interior, and a deployable table operatively coupled to the pillar support structure. The deployable table is movable between a stowed position pivoted against the pillar support structure and a deployed position pivoted v...