ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,850, issued on Aug. 4, 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 torsion profile. The torsion profile is connected to a side arm by a weld seam in each case. At least in the area of the welded connection, the torsion profile has a wall having a wall thickness that is g...