ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,348, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Bearing assembly for supporting a unit of a motor vehicle on a structural component of the motor vehicle" was invented by Frank Albertz (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany), Peter Genender (Woerthsee, Germany) and Ulrich Theuersbacher (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bearing assembly for supporting a unit of a motor vehicle on a structural component of the motor vehicle includes four bearings with an elastic center. The four bearings are arranged on the structural component of the motor vehicle such that the elastic centers of the bearings together de...