US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Vehicle hood latch release system and method" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,772, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle hood latch release system and method" was invented by Francis Raymond Gillis (Farmington Hills, Mich.), David Alexander Goff (Detroit), Ciprian Ioan Codea (Belle River, Canada) and Kosta Papanikolaou (Huntington Woods, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hood latch release system includes, among other things, a release handle within a compartment covered by a hood, a hood latch assembly, and a release assembly having an electrically powered actuator and a mechanical actuator. The electrically powered actuator and the mechanical actuator ...