ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,887, issued on May 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cargo management system" was invented by Fernando Ribeiro de Oliveira (Salvador, Brazil), Paulo Neto (Camacari, Brazil), Daniel Santos Ferreira (Pitangueiras, Brazil), Oscar Ikuno (Santa Cruz Cabralia, Brazil), Fabio Figueiredo (Lauro de Freitas, Brazil), Yuri Kaluf Alencar (Lauro de Freitas, Brazil) and Rodrigo Rodrigues (Salvador, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a first storage assembly configured to be disposed within a seating row. A first base is disposed on seatbacks and a sidewall is rotatably coupled to the first b...