US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 17 for "Cargo orientation and alignment" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,789, issued on March 17, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Cargo orientation and alignment" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.), Eric Scott Levine (Novi, Mich.), William Wurz (San Francisco) and Matthew B. Rutman (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adjustment system includes at least one base plate, at least one accessory supported by the at least one base plate, and a controller that receives input from at least one sensor. The controller determines a position of the at least one accessory o...