US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 8 for "Actuator moving door-trim panel in cross-vehicle direction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,007, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Actuator moving door-trim panel in cross-vehicle direction" was invented by Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), S. M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.) and Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a door panel. The assembly includes a door-trim panel movably supported by the door panel. The assembly includes an actuator between the door panel and the door-trim panel. The door-trim panel is selectively movable relative to the door panel in a cross-vehicle direction by the actuator."

The patent was filed on...