US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Tailgate subassembly presetting method and tailgate assembly having preset subassemblies" (American, Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,435, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Deaborn, Mich.).

"Tailgate subassembly presetting method and tailgate assembly having preset subassemblies" was invented by Joseph Prior (Detroit), Joshua Robert Hemphill (White Lake, Mich.), Raul Ezequiel Alvarez Ruiz (Estado de Mexico, Mexico), Michael Shawn Watterworth (Brighton, Mich.), Cheryl Ann Engel (Jackson, Mich.) and Dinesh Murali (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The tailgate assembly method includes presetting a frame subassembly of a tailgate assembly relative to a vehicle structure; and presetting a door subassembly of the tailgate assem...