ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,481, issued on June 2, was assigned to BOS GMBH & Co. KG (Ostfildern, Germany).

"Motor vehicle and storage space for such a motor vehicle" was invented by Mickey Hannan (Shelby Township, Mich.), Amy Wagner (Davisburg, Mich.) and Kaivalya Jadhav (Farmington Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Motor vehicle having a storage space embodied as a recess and having a storage space base mounted movably in a lifting manner in the storage space by a lifting device. The storage space base is movable between a lower end position adjacent to a lower end region of the storage space and an upper end position located in the region of an uppe...