US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Additively manufactured trim article" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,429, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Additively manufactured trim article" was invented by Siddharthan Selvasekar (Livermore, Calif.), Chris Fredriksson (LaSalle, Canada), Patrick Maloney (Livonia, Mich.), Sangram Tamhankar (Canton, Mich.) and Kevin VanNieulande (Fraser, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headrest assembly includes a lattice matrix having a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) cells. Each 3D cell of includes a node and a plurality of links outwardly extending from the node. The lattice matrix includes a plurality of sections including a first section having a first...