ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,192, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Volkswagen AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).
"Fastening arrangement" was invented by Jens Junggebauer (Braunschweig, Germany) and Nils Gwiasda (Braunschweig, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastening arrangement having a fastening element for elastically connecting a bolt-on part to a support part. The fastening element has a head section (7) that transitions into an element shank. An elastomer profile part with a retaining groove which is open radially to the outside, into which a retaining foot of the bolt-on part can engage, is arranged on the underside of the head section. The retaining gro...