US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Dec. 9 for "Passenger motor vehicle having improved side impact protection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,756, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Passenger motor vehicle having improved side impact protection" was invented by Andre Daubitz (Herrenberg, Germany) and Arno Disson (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passenger motor vehicle includes a body, a side door movable between a closed position and an open position, a side door fixing element, and a body stop element. The side door fixing element is disposed on the side door and the body stop element is disposed above the side door fixing element in a vertical direction of the passenger motor vehicle when the side door is...