ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,653, issued on May 13, was assigned to Motherson Innovations Co. Ltd. (London).
"Air vent and vehicle with an air vent" was invented by Romeo Wieczorek (Stuttgart, Germany) and Torsten Weingartner (Gottingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air vent for a vehicle includes a housing with an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air channel between the air inlet and the air outlet; a rigid air directing body arranged within the air channel and pivotably arranged within the housing by being affixed to a first axis; an actuator arranged within the housing in order to act on the rigid air-directing body to determine a direction of an...