US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on May 12 for "Shelter system having deployable platform" (Michigan, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,564, issued on May 12, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Shelter system having deployable platform" was invented by Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.), Amil Vira (Irvine, Calif.), Shane Patton (San Francisco), Michael Lozano (Detroit) and Bradford Zercoe (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shelter system for a truck includes a platform assembly that can pivot back-and-forth between a stowed position and a deployed position. The platform assembly spans a bed of a truck when in the stowed position. The platform assembly is disposed over a cab of the truck when in the deployed position. ...