US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on Aug. 11 for "Component assembly comprising space-saving detent connection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,294, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Component assembly comprising space-saving detent connection" was invented by Helge Andree (Landshut, Germany) and Steffen Schadt (Erding, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component arrangement includes a carrier element, a first component element connected to the carrier element by a first latching connection, and a second component element connected to the first component element by a second latching connection. The first latching connection includes a first latching hook and the second latching connection includes a second latching hook. The sec...