US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on Feb. 10 for "Interface structured for detachably connecting a vehicle test body to a sled base in a vehicle body testing assembly" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,685, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Interface structured for detachably connecting a vehicle test body to a sled base in a vehicle body testing assembly" was invented by Tiffany Marie Sontag (Milan, Mich.), James Jeffrey Sontag (Milan, Mich.) and Kyle Allan Lindsay (White Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface for detachably connecting a vehicle test body to a sled base in a vehicle body assembly includes a sled first bracket connected to the sled base, a sled second bracket connected to the sled b...