US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on March 3 for "Accessory base plate with power connection routing" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,160, issued on March 3, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Accessory base plate with power connection routing" was invented by Eric Scott Levine (Novi, Mich.), Matthew B. Rutman (Westland, Mich.), Ming Hong Choi (Lassalle, Canada), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeffrey Sturges (Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.) and Michael Lozano (Detroit).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power routing system includes a base plate having a surface to support an accessory, a power source configured to provide power to the accessory, the power source having at least one first power outlet, and a power connection member mo...