US Patent Issued to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP on Oct. 20 for "Storage device for a luggage compartment of a motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,056, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Storage device for a luggage compartment of a motor vehicle" was invented by Martin Werner (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Gunsch (Leutenbach, Germany) and Jochen Bisinger (Esslingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device for a luggage compartment of a motor vehicle includes a frame dividing the luggage compartment. The storage device is pivotable out of a substantially horizontal horizontal position about a pivot axis into an angled angular position. The frame has a cover foldable about a folding axis by hinge elements and is moveab...