US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 14 for "Application device designed to apply a seal to a body element of a vehicle and method" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,082, issued on July 14, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Application device designed to apply a seal to a body element of a vehicle and method" was invented by Thomas Brueckl (Thalmassing, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application device for applying a seal to a body element of a vehicle, comprising a guiding apparatus to feed continuous material to an outlet apparatus. The application device has a first sensor apparatus to check a predefined end portion of the continuous material for the presence of at least one predefined defect mark. The outlet apparatus has a second sensor apparatus wherein, in t...