ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,051, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Bumper arrangement with end extension" was invented by Havard Sorlie (Lillehammer, Norway) and Odd Perry Sovik (Kolbu, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper arrangement, is coupled to a motor vehicle via crash boxes, having a main crossmember and an auxiliary crossmember which is below the main crossmember in the vertical direction of the motor vehicle, wherein the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember are connected to one another in their end region, wherein a connecting part is in the form of an extruded profile which in ...