US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Tailgate subassembly alignment system and alignment method" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,681, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Tailgate subassembly alignment system and alignment method" was invented by Joseph Prior (Detroit), Joshua Robert Hemphill (White Lake, Mich.), Raul Ezequiel Alvarez Ruiz (Estado de Mexico, Mexico) and Michael Shawn Watterworth (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tailgate assembly, includes a frame subassembly having a cargo bed access opening between a driver side section and a passenger side section, and a door subassembly that is pivotably coupled to the frame subassembly. The door subassembly is pivotable relative to the frame s...