US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 30 for "Vehicle flow control system with lighting assembly" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,855, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle flow control system with lighting assembly" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), David Pericak (Clinton Township, Mich.), Jeffrey Robert Seaman (Petersburg, Mich.), Samir Datta (Rochester Hills, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Naples, Fla.), Ryan O'Gorman (Beverly Hills, Mich.) and Jenna Rogers (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle flow control system includes an active grille shutter assembly of a vehicle. The active grille shutter assembly has shutters and a lighting assembly configured to emit light that p...