ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,263,770, issued on April 1, was assigned to GRAMMER AG (Ursensollen, Germany).
"Vehicle interior equipment part" was invented by Ralph Nuss (Poppenricht, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle equipment part having a base fixed to the bodywork and pivot part pivotable relative to the base about an axis, which pivot part can be locked in one pivot direction by a free-wheel device having a clamping member. The clamping member is arranged in a wedge-shaped clamping gap radially between a first counter-surface formed by a wedge structure fixed to the base and a circular cylindrical second counter-surface associated with the pivot p...