ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,896, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Rack system and method for operating a rack" was invented by Jeroen Lem (Wittem, Netherlands), Marcel Grein (Geilenkirchen, Germany) and Ilya Popov (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack system for a cargo space of a commercial vehicle having a rack with at least one shelf and at least one adjusting device for adjusting the shelf about a pivot axis extending in the width direction of the rack between a loading and unloading setting and a transport setting, In order to provide a rack system that can be used more efficiently and mor...