US Patent Issued to MEKRA Lang on Sept. 16 for "Indirect rear viewing system with index geometry comprising an adjustment ball with overtwist indexing" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,781, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to MEKRA Lang GmbH & Co. KG (Ergersheim, Germany).

"Indirect rear viewing system with index geometry comprising an adjustment ball with overtwist indexing" was invented by Werner Lang (Ergersheim, Germany), Elmar Finkenberger (Adelshofen, Germany) and Albrecht Popp (Weihenzell, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an indirect rear viewing system for a motor vehicle having a supporting element for fastening at least one reflective element, wherein the supporting element has a coupling region for a position variable fastening/attachment to an adjusting element, which in ...