ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,112, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Liftgate mounted sensor assembly" was invented by Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Moura Renato da Rosa Borges (Salvador/Bahia, Brazil) and Henrico Quinelato (Pituacu/Salvador, Brazil).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a liftgate having a frame and a body panel supported by the frame, the body panel defining a plurality of openings, the openings providing access to the frame. The assembly includes a first cover covering the plurality of openings o...