US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Center console and front seat assembly for a vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,057, issued on Oct. 20, 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, having a storage trough which extends over at least a predominant part of a length of the center console. In order to provide a center console that can be easily configured by a user as required, the center console has at least two different electrical functional units which each individually are selectively arrangeable at least partially in a storage space of the storage trough."

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