ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,863, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Twist beam axle for a motor vehicle" was invented by Oliver Mielke (Altenbeken, Germany), Vitalis Rudi (Paderborn, Germany), Erik Schultz (Paderborn, Germany) and Vaclav Hanzlik (Liberec, Czech Republic).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twist beam axle for a motor vehicle, having two trailing arms which are connected by a torsion profile, and the torsion profile is integrally joined at its longitudinal end sections to the trailing arms by a weld seam, and the torsion profile has a relief bead in its respective longitudinal end sections in the...