US Patent Issued to MAN Truck & Bus on June 30 for "Cross beam, motor vehicle and method of mounting an assembly" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,136, issued on June 30, was assigned to MAN Truck & Bus SE (Munich).

"Cross beam, motor vehicle and method of mounting an assembly" was invented by Daniel Kummel (Munich), Patrick Schwedes (Munich), Darko Kondic (Munich), Marcel Diemer (Munich), Steve Sattler (Munich) and Willi Kusch (Wangen im Allgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates, inter alia, to a cross beam (18) for a ladder frame (10) of a motor vehicle, preferably a utility vehicle. The cross beam (18) comprises an elongated support body (46) having an top side, a bottom side and at least one through hole (52, 54) connecting the top side and the bo...