ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,525, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Motor bearing assembly for a vehicle" was invented by Michael Adam (Pliening, Germany), Rainer Boehner (Olching, Germany), Georg Rauch (Wertingen, Germany) and Dirk Schoenhuetl (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor bearing assembly for a vehicle, wherein an x axis, a y axis, and a z axis are defined which are perpendicular to one another. The motor bearing assembly comprises a motor bearing with a housing to be secured to the vehicle body and a stop buffer which protrudes from the housing parallel to the z axis, said stop buffer having an end fa...