US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle frame and corresponding joint structure" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,849, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle frame and corresponding joint structure" was invented by William Moore Sherwood (Beverly Hills, Mich.), Greg Gombert (Canton, Mich.), Sukhwinder Singh Dhindsa (Windsor, Canada) and Venkateswaran Ramanarayanan (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A joint structure for a vehicle frame includes a first structural tube, a second structural tube, and a pin. The first structural tube has first and second panels opposing each other. The first structural tube has third and fourth panels opposing each other. The second structural tube exten...