ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,728, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Arrangement for holding a sidewall element on a bodyshell part of a vehicle, bracket and vehicle" was invented by Serhan Cavgun (Unterschleissheim, Germany), Almir Gacan (Ingolstadt, Germany) and Martin Riedner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for holding a sidewall element on a bodyshell part of a bodyshell for a vehicle, in which arrangement the sidewall element is held on the bodyshell part by way of a bracket which is formed separately from the bodyshell part and separately from the sidewall element. The bracket is connected to the...