US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Vehicle aerodynamic altering system and method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,722,461, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle aerodynamic altering system and method" was invented by Sriram Pakkam (Royal Oak, Mich.), Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.) and Marius Curea (Canton, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle system includes a tonneau cover, and an actuator assembly that transitions the tonneau cover back-and-forth between a lowered position and a tilted position. The tonneau cover covers a cargo bed of a vehicle when the tonneau cover is in the lowered position and when the tonneau cover is in the tilted position."

The patent was filed on Jun...