US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 21 for "Ventilation flap for a vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,262, issued on July 21, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Ventilation flap for a vehicle" was invented by Oeztzan Akif (Munich), Christian Hack (Schweitenkirchen, Germany) and Arne Koehler (Pliening, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ventilation flap is provided for a ventilation flap assembly of a vehicle front. The ventilation flap blocks an air inlet of the vehicle front in a closed position and allows the air inlet in an open position. The ventilation flap can be rotated from the closed position into the open position by way of a rotational movement about a rotational axis by an actuator which can be c...