US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Combined vehicle climbing ladder and recovery board" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,569, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Combined vehicle climbing ladder and recovery board" was invented by Stuart C. Salter (White Lake, Mich.), Jeffrey Robert Seaman (Brownstown, Mich.), David Brian Glickman (Southfield, Mich.), Paul Kenneth Dellock (Northville, Mich.) and Annette Lynn Huebner (Highland, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle assembly, includes, among other things, an accessory usable as a climbing ladder to access an area of a vehicle. The accessory is also configured to be used as a recovery board. A method of using a vehicle accessory includes, among othe...