US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on April 7 for "Vehicle user support including upper hood module" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,866, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle user support including upper hood module" was invented by Marc Silva Kondrad (Macomb, Mich.), David D. Friske (Wolverine Lake, Mich.), Michael Joseph Niksa (Royal Oak, Mich.), Kevin Wayne Preuss (Ortonville, Mich.), Sangram Laxman Tamhankar (Farmington Hills, Mich.) and Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user support includes a hood structure that is supported by a back frame structure of the user support. The hood structure may comprise a one-piece homogeneous polymer structure that is formed by an additive proc...