ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,243, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).
"Wheel rim assembly" was invented by Julius Maximilian Engelke (Aachen, Germany), Jessica Rebecca Rausch (Moenchengladback, Germany), Abhinav Dhake (Aachen, Germany) and Niels Pasligh (Monchengladback, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wheel cover assembly for a wheel of a motor vehicle may include a wheel body and a cover portion arranged on an outside of the wheel body. The cover portion may be guided on the wheel body so as to be movable relative to the wheel body between an open position allowing an air flow between the outside and an in...