US Patent Issued to VOLKSWAGEN on Jan. 13 for "Arrangement of a separate functional element of a washer water reservoir on a fixing portion of a structural component" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,181, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Wolfsburg, Germany).

"Arrangement of a separate functional element of a washer water reservoir on a fixing portion of a structural component" was invented by Mario Ippoliti (Wolfsburg, Germany), Thorsten Tobias Merz (Lehre, Germany) and Stefan Kruger (Klotze, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrangement of a separate functional element of a washing fluid reservoir on a corresponding a fixing portion of a structural component of a motor vehicle, wherein the fixing portion is at least partially formed from a plastics material, and wherein an opening is formed in the fixing...