ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,779, issued on June 17, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Joining arrangement having a receiver and a ball joint" was invented by Helmut Jakobsmeyer (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a joining arrangement having a receiver with a receiving opening and having a ball joint which is spread open into the receiver, wherein the ball joint comprises a joint pin with a joint ball and a joint socket for receiving the joint ball, wherein the joint socket has at least two wings with in each case one internally situated joint surface, wherein the joint surfaces are in c...