ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,888, issued on May 13, was assigned to Volvo Car Corp. (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Cooling module support bracket" was invented by Thomas Halsius (Trollhattan, Sweden), Ella Viberg (Gothenburg, Sweden), Kaveh Behbahani (Lindome, Sweden), Jose Bechara (Gothenburg, Sweden), Bo Hansson (Gothenburg, Sweden) and Sylvain Sauvage (Torslanda, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bracket for a cooling module in a front end structure of a vehicle includes forward crash-box connection means, cooling module connection means, a rigid arm extending between the forward crash-box connection means at a forward side and the cooling module connection mea...