US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 14 for "Sensor assembly including mounting bracket fused to vehicle body" (Brazilian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,441,255, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Sensor assembly including mounting bracket fused to vehicle body" was invented by Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Ingo Fromel (Salvador / Bahia, Brazil), Carlos Arthur Franca (Lauro de Freitas/Bahia, Brazil) and Rashaun Phinisee (Ypsilanti, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle body having an exterior surface. A sensor assembly has a mounting bracket and a sensor housing. The mounting bracket is on the exterior surface of the vehicle body and is fused to the exterior surface of the vehicle body. The sensor housing ...