ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,319,213, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Cross-member arrangement for a battery-powered electric vehicle" was invented by Arne Koehler (Pliening, Germany), Roland Lang (Asbach-Baeumenheim, Germany), Lin Moellenhoff (Odelzhausen, Germany) and Mark Muehlhausen (Woerth, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-member arrangement for a bumper assembly on a motor vehicle includes a first deformation element mounting and a second deformation element mounting, a forward cross-member profile, which is connected to each of the two deformation element mountings, a rear cross-member profile, which is co...