ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,503,169, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Method for producing a vehicle structural component, more particularly a body structural component of a vehicle" was invented by Alexander Fickerl (Munich), Thiemo Fieger (Olching, Germany), Felix Haeckel (Munich) and Johannes Staeves (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a vehicle structural component includes providing a first component body and a second component body and additively building up a connecting body. The first component body and the second component body are connected by the connecting body during the additively buil...