ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,298, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Rock rail assembly" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.), Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.), Dennis Yee (Milford, Mich.), Aaron Peter Klop (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Satvinder Singh Matharu (Tecumseh, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rock rail assembly for a vehicle includes a mounting structure, an arm mounted to the mounting structure, a motor bracket coupled to the mounting structure, a motor mounted to the motor bracket, a pivot bar pivotably coupled with the mounting ...