US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on July 14 for "Connecting device for connecting a battery housing to a rear car bodyshell of a motor car body" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,192, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Connecting device for connecting a battery housing to a rear car bodyshell of a motor car body" was invented by Arnold Migendt (Sindelfingen, Germany), Andreas Lueckemann (Stuttgart, Germany) and Xiaodong Mao (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connecting device that connects a battery housing to a rear car bodyshell of a body of an electric passenger motor car. The connecting device includes a crossbeam and a plurality of fixing sleeves that are disposed in the crossbeam. Each of the plurality of fixing sleeves are passed through b...