US Patent Issued to Volkswagen on Sept. 30 for "Exterior mirror for a vehicle, retaining system for use with a functional component of a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,923, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Exterior mirror for a vehicle, retaining system for use with a functional component of a vehicle" was invented by Steffen Doehlert (Magdeburg, Germany) and Toralf Gresens (Flechtorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior mirror for a vehicle, a retaining system for use with a functional component of a vehicle and a vehicle comprising at least one such exterior mirror. It is provided that an exterior mirror for a vehicle comprises a retaining system having a mirror module arranged thereon and at least one functional module having at least one i...