ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,494, issued on June 9, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Sensor assembly" was invented by Michael Robertson Jr. (Garden City, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.) and Tyler Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor assembly includes a fixed vehicle structure and a vehicle panel that is movable relative to the fixed vehicle structure between an open position and a closed position. The sensor assembly additionally includes a bracket mounted to the movable vehicle panel, a sensor mounted to the bracket, and a first pin that is actuatable to fix the bracket to the fixed vehicl...