US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Dec. 30 for "Apparatus for attaching a rear-view mirror to the interior of a transportation vehicle and transportation vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,989, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Apparatus for attaching a rear-view mirror to the interior of a transportation vehicle and transportation vehicle" was invented by Dietmar Kahrens (Bergfeld, Germany) and Robin Rudat (Vechelde, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement for fastening an interior rearview mirror to a transportation vehicle, wherein the interior review mirror has a mirror head and a mirror foot connected together and the mirror foot is releasably attached to a base plate fixed to the transportation vehicle. At least one elastically deformable first clamping element is held on ...