ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,459,576, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Vehicle structural assembly" was invented by Dragan B. Stojkovic (Taylor, Mich.), Joseph Antoni (South Lyon, Mich.), Andre Jurkiewicz (Northville, Mich.) and Karen Nuler (Canton, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structural assembly of a vehicle includes a pair of hinge pillars, a pair of channel members and a pair of rails. Each channel member of the pair of channel members includes a vertical wall, a top wall, and a bottom wall. The vertical wall is secured to a respective hinge pillar of the pair of hinge pillars and the bottom wall is spac...