US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Shrouds for stowable steering columns" (Mexican, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,047, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Shrouds for stowable steering columns" was invented by Kalyanaraman Bharathan (Canton, Mich.), Tim Ray Beard (St. Clair Shores, Mich.), Thomas Junior Luckett (Saline, Mich.), Paul Cepeda (Mexico City), Alma Elisa Lopez Rayon (Puebla, Mexico) and Benjamin John Keur (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a steering column movable between an operating position and a stowed position, a first shroud coupled to the steering column, the first shroud positioned around a lower portion of the steering column, and a ...