US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Dec. 2 for "Air filter device and filter element for an air filter device of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,374, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Air filter device and filter element for an air filter device of a motor vehicle" was invented by Wolfgang Enderle (Hochdorf, Germany) and Eric Schumacher (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An air filter device for a motor vehicle includes a housing with a receiving space for a filter element where the filter element has a respective first projection that projects from each side wall near one of two transverse walls. The housing has two opposite housing side walls, both of which have at least one link each in which the first projection...