Patent ID: 7401427

Claim:
A bracket assembly for mounting a front license plate to an automotive vehicle, where said vehicle does not have an integrally designed and designated front license plate mounting location embodied in the front exterior of said vehicle that includes an integral means for mounting said license plate, where said vehicle does have existing, integral apertures in the body of said vehicle that are located behind and below the front grille of said vehicle, said bracket assembly comprising a detachable body having a front and a rear extending between a pair of sides, said front having a planar portion adapted for mounting said license plate thereto, said body having two attached arms that have a specific, uniquely configured physical structure so as to allow said arms to extend rearward from said rear of said body, passing through the front grille of said vehicle, to engage the existing, integral apertures in the body of said vehicle that are located behind and below the front grille of said vehicle, where said arms are secured by means of fasteners which pass through apertures in said arms to be received into said existing, integral apertures in the body of said vehicle that are located behind and below the front grille of said vehicle; and where said body of said bracket assembly has a specific, uniquely configured physical structure, made up of in part of two attachment slots for said arms, one of said slots being disposed generally one half the distance from the center of said body to one of the sides and the other of said slots being generally disposed one half the distance from the center of said body to the other of said sides and where each of said slots is generally disposed two thirds of the distance from said bottom of said body to said top of said body, allowing said body to either be attached to said arms with the top of said body facing up or with the top of said body facing down.