ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,269, issued on March 4, was assigned to BENT GmbH (Viersen, Germany).
"Adapter element and modular system" was invented by Marko Zemke (Bochum, Germany) and Werner Blum (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an adapter element for fastening a planar element, in particular an awning, to a vehicle, including an adapter body, which has a first edge region for fastening the adapter element to a vehicle, and a second edge region for fastening a planar element to the adapter element. The first edge region of the adapter body is equipped with a vehicle connection element for releasably fastening the first ...