US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Porous trip for underbody shield" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,247, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Porous trip for underbody shield" was invented by Laura Saneholtz (Berkley, Mich.), Michael Francois (Wyandotte, Mich.) and Ricardo David Ortega del Angel (Iztapalapa, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An airflow management device for a vehicle underbody includes a plurality of protrusions, each having a leading face extending away from a base and narrowing to a peak positioned away from the major surface at a height of the protrusion and a trailing portion extending from the leading face to a trailing profile that tapers inwardly from the ba...