US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 21 for "Conductive motor vehicle paint enabling wind drag reduction" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,254, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Conductive motor vehicle paint enabling wind drag reduction" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Darren Palmer (Dearborn, Mich.), Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.), Katherine Howard-Cone (Canton, Mich.) and Kevin Howard (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle body component includes a substrate, at least one corrosion protection layer disposed on the substrate, a basecoat layer disposed on the at least one corrosion protection layer, and a clearcoat layer disposed on the basecoat layer. The clear...