US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 24 for "Securing element and cover for an interior mirror base of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,506, issued on March 24, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Securing element and cover for an interior mirror base of a motor vehicle" was invented by Stefanus Stahl (Holzkirchen, Germany) and Martin Friedrich (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A securing element for a motor vehicle has a hermetic body made of plastic which encloses a cavity. The cavity is filled with a filling medium. The thermal expansion coefficient of the filling medium is, up to a softening temperature of the plastic, greater than the thermal expansion coefficient of the plastic. A cover for an interior mirror base of a motor vehicle inc...