ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,797, issued on June 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Rack system for a commercial vehicle and method for laterally balancing and loading of a commercial vehicle" was invented by Jeroen Lem (Wittem, Netherlands), Keith Allen Godin (Dearborn, Mich.), Marcel Grein (Geilenkirchen, Germany), Nicole Leonarda Wilhelmina Eikelenberg (Meerssen, Netherlands), Johnathan Andrew Line (Northville, Mich.), Joseph Michael Kish (Canton, Mich.), Jimmy Moua (Canton, Mich.), David Longin (Herent, Belgium) and Detlef Kuck (Inden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack system for a commercial vehicle including at...