ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,246, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).
"Fastening arrangement with a vehicle roof-frame structure and a roof module" was invented by Wojciech Brymerski (Kornwestheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening arrangement with a roof-frame structure of a vehicle and a roof module, the roof-module carrier of which, in the assembled state, is adhesively bonded to an adhesive flange of the roof-frame structure with an interposed adhesive. The roof-module carrier is additionally connected to the adhesive flange of the roof-frame structure by a screw connection in which the roof-module carrier is ...