US Patent Issued to B ayerische M otoren W erke A ktiengesellschaft on May 27 for "Vehicle having a spoiler and method for mounting a spoiler on a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,021, issued on May 27, was assigned to B ayerische M otoren W erke A ktiengesellschaft (Munich).

"Vehicle having a spoiler and method for mounting a spoiler on a vehicle" was invented by Falco Hollmann (Garching, Germany), Helmut Schaffer (Fuerstenfeldbruck, Germany) and Bernt Arne Syvertsen (Poing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle has a spoiler fastened to an outer skin component of the vehicle. For this purpose, clip elements are provided on the outer skin component and are in engagement with corresponding mating clip elements of the spoiler. The clip elements have an end stop in a z-direction, which is oriented tra...