US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Wheel assembly with outer hub having polygonal shape" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,840, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Wheel assembly with outer hub having polygonal shape" was invented by Saied Nusier (Canton, Mich.), Jamel E. Belwafa (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Srinivasan Sundararajan (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rahul Arora (Birmingham, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel assembly includes a rim, an inner hub concentric with the rim, and an outer hub concentric with the rim and the inner hub. The outer hub is between the rim and the inner hub. The wheel assembly includes a first set of spokes spaced circumferentially about the inner hub between the inner hub and the ...