US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Energy absorbing structure for vehicle" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,261, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Energy absorbing structure for vehicle" was invented by Mohamed Ridha Baccouche (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jamal Bakkar (Canton, Mich.), Fubang Wu (Woodhaven, Mich.) and Horst Heribert Lanzerath (Bad Muenstereifel, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy absorbing structure connects a first structure of a vehicle to an adjacent second structure of the vehicle. The energy absorbing structure includes support beams and lattice arrays. Each support beam is located at a respective corner of the energy absorbing structure and extend in a longitudina...