US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 21 for "Vehicle with bumper and crush can" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,111, issued on April 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle with bumper and crush can" was invented by Saeed D. Barbat (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a vehicle bumper and a crush can to support the vehicle bumper on the vehicle frame. The crush can may include an inflation chamber, which is inflatable from an uninflated state to an inflated state. The vehicle can also include an inflator in fluid communication with the inflation chamber...