US Patent Issued to AMPERE, NISSAN MOTOR on Feb. 24 for "Motor vehicle cross-member extending between two shock absorber cups" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,179, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to AMPERE S.A.S. (Boulogne Billancourt, France) and NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Motor vehicle cross-member extending between two shock absorber cups" was invented by Julien Carrie (Guyancourt cedex, France), Luis De Almeida (Guyancourt cedex, France) and Edouard Girault (Guyancourt cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strut cross-member of a motor vehicle includes a central part and two side ends. Each of the ends includes an interface for attachment to the body of the vehicle and an interface for attachment to shock absorber cups. The cross-member is made of cast aluminum....