US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 18 for "Winch control using reassigned vehicle input device" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,379, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Winch control using reassigned vehicle input device" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), William Wurz (San Francisco), Ryan J. O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Peter Phung (Windsor, Canada) and David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle winch control assembly includes, among other things, a winch, and a vehicle input device that is reassigned to control the winch. The vehicle input device can be an accelerator pedal. A vehicle winch control method includes, among other things, reassigning ...