US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Vehicle cargo space access providing method" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,514, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Vehicle cargo space access providing method" was invented by Michael John Harmon (Northville, Mich.), Frank Thomas Brown (Santa Fe, N.M.), Kendra Marie Rabineau (Berkley, Mich.), Stuart Jamieson (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Max Tran (Pascoe Vale, Australia), Leigh H. Cosentino (Woodend, Australia), Andrew Beard (Glenaroua, Australia), Mark Johnson (Warranwood, Australia) and Nick David Eterovic (Brunswick West, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle cargo space access providing method includes, in response to a request to access a cargo spac...