US Patent Issued to Witte Automotive on April 29 for "Device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,999, issued on April 29, was assigned to Witte Automotive GmbH (Velbert, Germany).

"Device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another" was invented by Glen Lee (Cologne, Germany) and Klaus Spickenheier (Iserlohn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for compensating for tolerances between two components to be connected to one another may have a fastening element for fastening to a first component provided with an opening and for connecting the component to a second component. The device may also have at least two axial tolerance compensation stages for compensating axial tolerances...