ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,820, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Bumper arrangement having a crossmember and crash boxes" was invented by Georg Frost (Steinheim, Germany), Mathias Lohberg (Altenbeken, Germany) and Martin Schroeter (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper arrangement, having a crossmember which is coupled via crash boxes to a motor vehicle, the crossmember having end regions, which project laterally beyond the crash boxes in the motor vehicle transverse direction, and attaching regions, in which the crash boxes are coupled to the crossmember, the crossmember being configur...