US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 28 for "Bumper assembly with crash boxes" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,841, issued on July 28, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Bumper assembly with crash boxes" was invented by Konstantin Tatarinov (Bielefeld, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper assembly, having a cross member, which is coupled to a motor vehicle via crash boxes, wherein the cross member is oriented with its longitudinal direction in the motor vehicle transverse direction and on a rear wall has attachment regions in which the crash boxes are coupled by a material connection to the cross member, wherein in cross section a chamfer or a radius is configured on the crash boxes in an external corner, relative to t...