US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Dec. 16 for "Cargo floor" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,976, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cargo floor" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Adrian Aguirre (Alvaro Obregon, Mexico), Micah Jones (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.), Dominic Berlingieri (Washington Township, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) and Michael John Neville (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cargo floor for a vehicle, the cargo floor including a body and a guiderail coupled with an underside of the body. The cargo floor including a puck coupled with the underside of the body, wherein the at least one puck slidably engages an inter...