ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,515, issued on June 16, was assigned to GM Global Technology Operations LLC (Detroit).

"Composite cover and method of manufacturing the cover" was invented by Venkateshwar R. Aitharaju (Troy, Mich.), Xiaosong Huang (Novi, Mich.) and Gustavo Cibrian Salazar (Belle River, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite cover includes a generally rectangular main portion having four main portion edges about a perimeter of the main portion and having opposing top and bottom surfaces defining respective upward and downward directions, and four generally rectangular side portions each contiguous with and extending downward from a respect...