US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 3 for "Airbag assembly including deployable panel" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,222, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Airbag assembly including deployable panel" was invented by Eric Axel Smitterberg (Berkley, Mich.), Russell Joseph Mihm (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Johnathan Andrew Line (Northville, Mich.), Chuck R. Reese (Northville, Mich.) and James Robert Chascsa II (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly includes a dash and a deployable panel supported by the dash. The deployable panel is moveable relative to the dash from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The deployable panel has a proximal end at the dash in the deployed ...