ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,449, issued on July 15, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle" was invented by Mirko Paare (Paderborn, Germany) and Elmar Mollemeier (Delbrueck, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bumper arrangement for a motor vehicle has a crossmember and crash boxes which are arranged in each case at the end of the crossmember, and also outer end modules. Each end module has a shell body and a shield which covers the front side of the shell body at least in certain regions, wherein the shell body is joined to a crash box, and an end of the crossmember is joined to a respe...