US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Bumper assembly including resettable energy absorber" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,758, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Bumper assembly including resettable 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 vehicle frame and a bumper. The vehicle frame includes a frame-rail end. The frame-rail end has a vehicle-forward end and a bore at the vehicle-forward end. The vehicle includes a resettable energy absorber supporting the bumper at the vehicle-forward end of the frame-rail end. The resettable energy absorber is movea...