US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 14 for "Vehicle having reconfigured passenger compartment modes" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,251, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle having reconfigured passenger compartment modes" was invented by Patrick Maloney (Livonia, Mich.), Marcos Silva Kondrad (Macomb Township, Mich.), Kevin Wayne Preuss (Ortonville, Mich.) and Kevin VanNieulande (Fraser, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle having a passenger compartment with a forward region, a central region, and a rearward region, a floor, a seating rail system positioned on the floor and extending along a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a plurality of seating assemblies arranged in the passenger com...