ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,211, issued on April 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).
"Hinge for a flap of a motor vehicle" was invented by Nicholas Aldersley (Hebertshausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge for a flap of a motor vehicle includes a flap element which is designed to be secured to the flap. A pivoting element is designed to be secured to a body of the motor vehicle such as to be rotatable about a hinge axis, wherein in a first location the flap element is connected to the pivoting element so as to be rotatable about a rotational axis, and in a second location, which is offset relative to the first location, the...