US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Nov. 3 for "Mounting system and method for mounting an upper body structure laterally onto a vehicle platform of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,780,318, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mounting system and method for mounting an upper body structure laterally onto a vehicle platform of a motor vehicle" was invented by Kadir Oguzcan Ger (Mainz, Germany), Bahman Moarefi (Mainz, Germany), Andrew Vaughan (Mainz, Germany), Vincent Laurent (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jelle Tjebbes (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Sebastian Kluh (Gimbsheim, Germany), Ameya Karmarkar (Russelsheim am Main, Germany), Rolf Verhoeven (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Miroslav Kropac (Mainz, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A...