ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,418, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Center console for a vehicle" was invented by Joerg Stephan (Pulheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center console for a vehicle, having a storage trough which extends over at least a predominant part of a length of the center console and which has a longitudinally extending side wall that laterally delimits a storage space of the storage trough. In order to optimize an ability of the center console to store articles, the center console has a holding unit which is arranged in the storage space of the storage trough and on the side wall...