US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Powered vehicle tailgate assembly having a door" (American, Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,982, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Powered vehicle tailgate assembly having a door" was invented by Joshua Robert Hemphill (White Lake, Mich.), Joseph Prior (Detroit), Michael Shawn Watterworth (Brighton, Mich.), Raul Ezequiel Alvarez Ruiz (Estado de Mexico, Mexico), Adrian Nania (Rochester, Mich.) and Amol Borkar (Nagpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tailgate assembly includes a frame subassembly having a cargo bed access opening disposed between a driver side section and a passenger side section, and a door subassembly that is pivotably coupled to the frame subassemb...