ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,890, issued on April 22, was assigned to Durr Assembly Products GmbH (Puttlingen, Germany).

"Method for measuring the mudguard edge of a vehicle on a test bench" was invented by Thomas Tentrup (Merzig-Mechern, Germany), Andre Deutsch (Herbitzheim, France), Joachim Kaufmann (Saarlouis, Germany), Simon Stroh (Saarwellingen, Germany) and Christian Petzinger (Heusweiler, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method for measuring the wing edge of a vehicle on a test bed, the test bed has a coordinate system in which the Z-axis is the vertical axis, the X-axis is an axis on the test bed extending in the horizontal plane in the longitu...