ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,297, issued on July 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Rotatable wheel deflector" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle frame and a swing arm rotatably coupled to the vehicle frame at a rotatable connection. A track curves along a curved path. The track is fixed relative to the swing arm and spaced from the rotatable connection. An anchor is fixed relative to the vehicle frame. The track is slideably engaged with the anchor along the curved path of the ...