US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 21 for "Vehicle bumper" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,351, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle bumper" was invented by Saeed D. Barbat (Novi, Mich.), Mohammad Omar Faruque (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Dean M. Jaradi (Macomb, Mich.) and S.M. Iskander Farooq (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper for a vehicle includes a crossbeam, a first crush can, and a second crush can. The first crush can extends vehicle-rearward from the crossbeam to the first frame rail along the vehicle-longitudinal axis and the second crush can extend vehicle-rearward from the crossbeam to the second frame rail along the vehicle-longitudinal axis. The b...