ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,686, issued on July 15, was assigned to WITTE AUTOMOTIVE GMBH (Velbert, Germany).
"Tolerance compensation device" was invented by Jan Bente (Sprockhovel, Germany) and Vladimir Radanovic (Cologne, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tolerance compensation device for bridging a distance between two components to be connected to one another, comprising a base element and a compensating element which can be screwed into the base element, the base element forming at least one stop and the compensating element having at least one elastically deformable transport securing means which is designed in suc...