US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Climate management system for a compartment of a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,333, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Climate management system for a compartment of a vehicle" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Michael Hrecznyj (Livonia, Mich.), Sarah Marie Shaw (Commerce Township, Mich.), Jeff Robert Seaman (Petersburg, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A climate management system for a compartment of a vehicle includes a divider selectively disposed in the compartment to divide the compartment into two zones in response to connection with a wall of the compar...