US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 4 for "Storage compartment with an elastic compartment divider" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,368, issued on March 4, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Storage compartment with an elastic compartment divider" was invented by Bernhard Schmid (Hallbergmoos, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage compartment for installation in a motor vehicle includes a storage volume which is bounded laterally by an at least partially encircling storage wall. At least one elastic compartment divider, which has a macroscopically elastic material at least in a central region of a longitudinal extent of the compartment divider, is provided such that the compartment divider can be transferred between a first divider ...