US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Nov. 18 for "Air guidance device for a motor car, particularly for a passenger car, and motor car" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,041, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Air guidance device for a motor car, particularly for a passenger car, and motor car" was invented by Etienne Pudell (Boeblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air guidance device of a motor car, where the motor car has a wheel rotatable around an axis of wheel rotation and the wheel has a wheel rim with an internal diameter, includes an air guidance element assigned to the wheel that has an air guidance surface. Air flowing over the air guidance surface during a journey of the motor car is guidable by the air guidance surface. The air g...