US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on May 6 for "Body for a passenger car and passenger car" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,268, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Body for a passenger car and passenger car" was invented by Martin Einwang (Freising, Germany), Andre Koch (Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, Germany) and Lorenz Kriegler (Rottenegg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body for a passenger car has a body-in-white structure which is located behind a wheel well for a front wheel of the passenger car and which has a transverse member that extends on the outside of a longitudinal beam of the body-in-white structure in front of a front end wall of the body-in-white structure in the vehicle transverse direction. T...