US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Vehicle closure release method and release system" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,215, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle closure release method and release system" was invented by Pietro Buttolo (Dearborn Heights, Mich.), John Eric Rolinger (Troy, Mich.), Christopher Henderson (Belleville, Mich.), Scott Steadmon Thompson (Belleville, Mich.), Matthew Ryan Preston (Whitmore Lake, Mich.), Robert Michael Grant (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Brendan Smythe (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A closure release method includes monitoring a pressure between a closure of a vehicle and a frame of the vehicle when the closure is closed against the frame...