US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 11 for "Method and system for applying a seal to a component for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,403, issued on March 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Method and system for applying a seal to a component for a vehicle" was invented by Thomas Brueckl (Thalmassing, Germany), Juergen Gollwitzer (Deggendorf, Germany) and Wolfgang Thurmer (Pfatter, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for applying a seal to a component includes conveying the component to a removal region while the component is held on a holding element and on a conveyor element. By a first robot, the holding element and the component are removed from the conveyor element, which is in the removal region, and moved to a rotary fram...