ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,690, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG (Coburg, Germany).

"Console for a motor vehicle" was invented by Christian Mergl (Zeil/Main, Germany), Uwe Sommer (Effelder, Germany), Luca Joseph (Coburg, Germany), Sebastian Giese (Coburg, Germany), Marcel Schieber (Weidhausen bei Coburg, Germany) and Wojciech Falinski (Coburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A console for a motor vehicle, having a base part to be arranged on a vehicle floor, a structural part arranged on the side of the base part that faces away from the vehicle floor, and an adjustment mechanism by means of which the structural par...