ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,628, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Moveable panel wedge system" was invented by Michael Robertson (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Venkatesh Krishnan (Canton, Mich.), Tyler D. Hamilton (Farmington, Mich.) and Segundo Baldovino (Novi, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wedge system includes a receiver and a wedge that is received within the receiver when a moveable vehicle panel is in a closed position. The wedge stabilizes movement of the moveable vehicle panel along a first axis, along a second axis that is different than the first axis, and along a third axis that is different than...