US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Jan. 28 for "Method for producing a support and motor vehicle support" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,550, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method for producing a support and motor vehicle support" was invented by Thomas Baranowski (Wurselen, Germany), Maik Broda (Wurselen, Germany), Markus Franzen (Stolberg, Germany) and Pascal Rebmann (Weilerswist, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a support for a motor vehicle, in particular a dashboard support, comprises the following steps: producing a core from a foam material and at least partially surrounding the core with a unidirectional layer to form a reinforced core. A resulting support for a motor vehicle has...