US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on July 7 for "Main body for a motor vehicle door" (Indian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,538, issued on July 7, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Main body for a motor vehicle door" was invented by Juergen Koehler (Cologne, Germany), Muhil Raj Govindaraj (Chennai, India), Hari Vigneshwaran (Dharapuram, India), Arul Praveen Aruldoss (Chennai, India) and Silvia Bappert (Siegburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A main body for a motor vehicle door which is produced by injection molding and has a frame, which has an upper reinforcing element, which has flanges that protrude from the upper reinforcing element. It is proposed for the upper reinforcing element to be integrally formed in one...