ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,031, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Body of a passenger car" was invented by Andreas Klindwort (Unterensingen, Germany), Gernot Jaeger (Gaertringen, Germany), Michael Wirsing (Gechingen, Germany) and Maxime Dagonet (Wendlingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A body of a passenger car includes a side sill and a side member in a region of a rear end of the body where the side member is disposed further inward in a transverse direction of the passenger car than the side sill. The side sill has a recess disposed in front of a rear wheel of the passenger car in a longitudinal direc...