US Patent Issued to Illinois Tool Works on May 26 for "Assembly for providing a fastening possibility for a vehicle component" (German, Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,989, issued on May 26, was assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc. (Glenview, Ill.).

"Assembly for providing a fastening possibility for a vehicle component" was invented by Marek Kukuczka (Istebna, Poland), Zsolt Wilke (Bad Mergentheim, Germany) and Andreas Rudolf (Eibelstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for providing a fastening possibility for a vehicle component to a body component is configured as a torsion clip and includes a connecting element and a retaining element. The assembly is transferable from a pre-assembly or delivery state into a prefixation state, wherein, in order to transfer the assembly from i...