US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Assembly configured to operate as a hinge and door check for motor vehicle" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,334, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Assembly configured to operate as a hinge and door check for motor vehicle" was invented by Joshua Robert Hemphill (White Lake, Mich.), Joe Prior (Detroit), Raul Ezequiel Alvarez Ruiz (Estado de Mexico, Mexico) and Michael Shawn Watterworth (Brighton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly may include a body side bracket configured to be mounted to a body of a motor vehicle. The assembly may include a hinge arm rotatably mounted to the body side bracket, wherein the hinge arm is rotatable between a closed position and a fully open posit...