ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,648, issued on July 7, was assigned to BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GMBH (Paderborn, Germany).
"Zigzag-shaped protection element and method for its production" was invented by Werner Von Mueller (Bruchsal, Germany), Udo Klasfauseweh (Guetersloh, Germany) and Andreas Ruwe (Bad Essen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the production of a zigzag-shaped protection element formed from multiple individual profiles includes the following steps: providing the individual profiles, welding the individual profiles to form a zigzag-shaped preform of the protection element such as to form at least one weld seam, wherein the individu...