ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,259, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Twist beam axle" was invented by Lars Claussen (Bad Lippspringe, Germany), Olaf Hertel (Braunschweig, Germany), Andreas Rieckmann (Braunschweig, Germany), Eduard Schmidt-Beljawski (Uelzen, Germany), Klaus Schneider (Marsberg, Germany) and Erik Schultz (Paderborn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A twist beam axle has two side arms and a twist profile. The twist profile is joined to a side arm by a weld. At least in the area of the welded joint, the twist profile has a wall with a wall thickness that is greater than the wall thickness o...