US Patent Issued to AUDI on Nov. 4 for "Functional component, component assembly comprising a functional component, and method for securing a functional component to a holding component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,667, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Functional component, component assembly comprising a functional component, and method for securing a functional component to a holding component" was invented by Jan-Oliver Brassel (Bad Friedrichshall, Germany), Jochen Rintelmann (Dessau, Germany) and Jorg Spindler (Uberlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A functional component which is designed to be secured to a holding component by pressing a connecting element into a depression of the holding component. In a non-deformed state, the connecting element protrudes in a press-in direction from a base bod...