US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on June 23 for "Rack system for a cargo space of a commercial vehicle" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,057, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Rack system for a cargo space of a commercial vehicle" was invented by Marcel Grein (Geilenkirchen, Germany), Jeroen Lem (Wittem, Netherlands) and Ilya Popov (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rack system for a cargo space of a commercial vehicle is provided having a rack with at least one shelf and a movement device for moving the rack between a transport position, in which the rack can be arranged completely in the cargo space, and an access position, in which the rack can be arranged at least partially outside the cargo space. I...