US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 18 for "Energy absorbing reinforcement structure for a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,895, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Energy absorbing reinforcement structure for a vehicle" was invented by Raj Jayachandran (Canton, Mich.), Fnu Mir Hamed Umar (Farmington Hills, Mich.), John Mardeusz (Dearborn, Mich.) and Irfan Sharif (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure for a vehicle includes a body and an energy absorber assembly. The body extends in a transverse direction of the vehicle and is configured to be secured to a main body structure of the vehicle. The energy absorber assembly extends from the body. The energy absorber assembly also includes arcu...