US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on May 13 for "Undercarriage panelling element for a vehicle and arrangement of an undercarriage panelling on a structure of the vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,894, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Undercarriage panelling element for a vehicle and arrangement of an undercarriage panelling on a structure of the vehicle" was invented by Stefan Fuggmann (Stuttgart, Germany), Jochen Schmid (Notzingen, Germany) and Ralph Manegold (Calw-Stammheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An undercarriage panelling element of a vehicle includes a first air guidance region, a second air guidance region that is attached to the first air guidance region rearwards in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and angled away from the first air guidance region,...