US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Methods and apparatus to couple a steering column to a housing" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,684, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus to couple a steering column to a housing" was invented by Erik William Soderlind (Harrison Township, Mich.), Steven Bryan Amburgy (Commerce Township, Mich.) and Taras Andrew Palczynski Jr. (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to couple a steering column to a housing are disclosed. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a bracket fixed to a steering column assembly, the bracket including a bracket surface, and a housing including projections extending from a housing surface of the hou...