ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,832, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Vibracoustic SE (Darmstadt, Germany).

"Holding structure" was invented by Rainer Schmidt-Sunnus (Lubeck, Germany), David Rose (Hamburg, Germany), Steffen Nitschke (Hamburg, Germany), Philipp Werner (Luneburg, Germany) and Daniel Renz (Luneburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a holding structure includes at least one receiving eye with a central receiving axis; at least two fixing points, with each fixing point having a fixing axis that runs parallel to the at least one receiving axis; a first wall and a second wall provided on opposite sides of the holding structure. In e...