US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Method of assembling a vehicle" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,487, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Method of assembling a vehicle" was invented by Jamil M. Alwan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Petros Frantzeskakis (Canton, Mich.), Michael Jon Gutowski (Saline, Mich.), Erik Billimoria (Canton, Mich.), Shawn Michael Morgans (Chelsea, Mich.), Henry W. Hausler (New Hudson, Mich.), Christopher Bondanza (Grosse Pointe Shores, Mich.), Kirk E. Sanborn (Rochester, Mich.) and Meghan Hall (Madison Heights, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assembling a vehicle that includes performing a first operation on a front vehicle structure, securing a plurali...