ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,013, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Center console and front seat assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Joerg Stephan (Pulheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A center console for a vehicle has a storage trough, which extends over at least a predominant part of a length of the center console, and a storage container, which is insertable into the storage trough and which has an upper entrance opening. In order to provide a center console and front seat assembly for a vehicle that are individually configurable in terms of their characteristics, the storage container has a rol...