ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,000, issued on June 30, was assigned to Kiekert AG (Heiligenhaus, Germany).
"Method and apparatus for mounting a motor vehicle component" was invented by Carsten Fuchs (Essen, Germany), Armin Handke (Duisburg, Germany), Matthias Ochtrop (Dorsten, Germany) and Andreas Sohlbach (Mulheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plastic housing for a motor vehicle component and to a method for mounting a motor vehicle component having a plastic housing, a housing opening closed by at least one plastic film and a mechanism arranged in an interior of the housing, in which the mechanism is mounted, the housing is then closed and the mechan...