ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,544, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Tolerance compensation arrangement, battery and method for providing tolerance compensation" was invented by Steffen Sinzel (Weinsberg, Germany), Dirk Hoefner (Wellheim, Germany) and Alexander Loefflath (Neuenstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tolerance compensation arrangement for tolerance compensation between a first component and a second component to be fastened to the first component, the tolerance compensation arrangement having a tolerance compensation unit, a base element for fastening to the first component, a compensation element which can...