US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle center console having powered storage compartment cover and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,954, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle center console having powered storage compartment cover and method" was invented by Brendan Diamond (Grosse Pointe, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.), Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.) and Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle includes a console having a base housing having a first compartment having an open top end, a powered cover coupled to the base housing and configured to move between an open compartment position exposing the first compartment, ...