US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on July 1 for "Underbody cladding element for a vehicle and arrangement of an underbody cladding on a body of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,324, issued on July 1, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Underbody cladding element for a vehicle and arrangement of an underbody cladding on a body of a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Wiggen (Renningen, Germany) and Francois Wittmann (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An underbody cladding element includes a first air channelling region, a second air channelling region disposed at a rear end of the underbody cladding element, and a flow separation edge. The flow separation edge is disposed behind the second air channelling region in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. An air flow...