US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 25 for "Instrument panel for a vehicle" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,369, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Instrument panel for a vehicle" was invented by Andrea Viviana Arregui Torres (Atizapan de Zaragoza, Mexico), Esteban Rojas (Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico) and Brent Clifford Dalton (Dearborn, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instrument panel for a vehicle includes a glovebox aperture and a glovebox assembly. The glovebox aperture is defined by the instrument panel. A perimeter of the glovebox aperture defines an actuation surface and a latch aperture such that the actuation surface and the latch aperture are unitarily formed with the instrument ...