ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,616, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Center console for a vehicle" was invented by Martin Huebner (Bergisch Gladbach, Germany), Tim Klausmann (Heinsberg, Germany), Bernd Ottlik (Pulheim, Germany), Marc Bisdorf (Cologne, Germany) and Robin Advena (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center console for a vehicle, has at least one storage chamber, laterally delimited on both sides by two side walls, and at least one dividing element, arranged in the storage chamber and which serves for subdividing the storage chamber. In order to provide a center console having a storage ch...