US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Console accessory load assistance for a vehicle" (California, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,278, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Console accessory load assistance for a vehicle" was invented by Stephen Moneypenny (San Diego), Bradford Zercoe (San Jose, Calif.), Amil Vira (Irvine, Calif.) and Justin Yang (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a seating assembly, a docking station adjacent to the seating assembly, an accessory configured to selectively engage the docking station to couple the accessory with the vehicle, an identification circuit configured to detect the accessory approaching the vehicle, an adjustment system configured to adjust the ...