US Patent Issued to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK, VOLKSWAGEN on Aug. 11 for "Motor vehicle component and method for producing the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,022, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany) and VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Motor vehicle component and method for producing the same" was invented by Guenter Fortmeier (Delbrueck, Germany), Thomas Henksmeier (Wadersloh, Germany), Norbert Niggemeyer (Paderborn, Germany) and Erik Schultz (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor vehicle component has two component parts made of steel with different wall thicknesses, which are arranged at an angle Alpha to one another and are connected by a weld seam. A joining surface at the end portion of the first component pa...