ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,467, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Fastening arrangement, motor vehicle" was invented by Ralf Menger (Braunschweig, Germany) and Steffen Kapune (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening arrangement for fastening a roof liner to a body roof, which has a frame opening, of a motor vehicle, with at least one fastening strip which is formed on the roof liner and extends parallel to a longitudinal or transverse side of the frame opening, with at least one elastically deformable clamping device, which is designed to lock the roof liner to the body roof in a form-fitting manner ...