ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,075, issued on March 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Adjustable base plate" was invented by Matthew B. Rutman (Canton, Mich.), Eric Scott Levine (Novi, Mich.), Michael M. Azzouz (Farmington, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeffrey R. Sturges (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.), William Wurz (San Francisco) and David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustable base plate system includes a first track structure configured to extend along one side of a vehicle cargo area and a second track structure configured to extend along an opposite side of a vehicle ca...