ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,462, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Motor car with a fastening arrangement for fastening a subframe for a vehicle axle to a body of the motor car" was invented by Julian Blaschke (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Dietmar Kallfass (Ammerbuch, Germany), Thomas Schmid (Gaertringen, Germany), Pascal Collins (Leonberg, Germany), Eric Schneider (Sindelfingen, Germany), Gernot Kurtzer (Herrsching, Germany), Michael Wirsing (Gechingen, Germany) and Waldemar Markstaedter (Ludwigsburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A motor car with a body and a fastening arrangement for fastening a subframe fo...