ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,440, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Loading floor fixation system" was invented by Manuel Amler (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Thomas Eberl (Ingolstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for fixing the loading floor in a motor vehicle, including a loading floor support and at least one loading floor. The loading floor support includes at least one latching element, and the loading floor has at least one molded element which is adapted to latch onto the at least one latching element of the loading floor support. The system is adapted, based on the latching, to lock the loading floor on the ...