US Patent Issued to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK on Sept. 9 for "Bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle" (Norwegian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,800, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).

"Bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle" was invented by Karl Kristian Berger (Gjovik, Norway), Jens Chr. Haker (Gjovik, Norway), Christian Handing (Langenberg, Germany), Andreas Hitz (Erwitte, Germany), Frode Paulsen (Gjovik, Norway), Frank Rabe (Hiddenhausen, Germany) and Odd Perry Sovik (Kolbu, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle, having an upper main crossmember, which is able to be coupled to the motor vehicle by way of crash boxes, and a lower auxiliary crossmember, wherein main crossmember an...