US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 14 for "Wheel assembly with elliptical spokes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,168, issued on April 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Wheel assembly with elliptical spokes" was invented by Saied Nusier (Canton, Mich.), Srinivasan Sundararajan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jamel E. Belwafa (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rahul Arora (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel assembly includes a rim and a hub concentric with the rim. The wheel assembly includes a first set of spokes spaced circumferentially about the hub between the rim and the hub. The spokes of the first set of spokes each has an elliptical shape elongated in a direction radially from the hub to the rim. The whee...