ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,059, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Clamp assembly for reconfigurable roof rack" was invented by Daniel Trentin (Ivanhoe, Australia), David Andrew Spink (Jan Juc, Australia) and Peter J. Caddy (Lara, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reconfigurable roof rack assembly of a motor vehicle may include a roof rail. The assembly may also include a cross-bar configurable between a first configuration and a second configuration. Further, the assembly may include a clamp assembly including a lever configured to apply force to a side of the cross-bar facing away from the roof rail t...