ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,322, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Heatable plastics component and method for producing" was invented by Mohcyn Bouabdalli (Zell im Wiesental, Germany), Reiner Kimmig (Todtnau, Germany), Yves Lecaillier (Ringsheim, Germany), Ganeshkumar Poothathar (Chennai, Germany), Roland Schwarz (Todtnau, Germany) and Thomas Stoll (Kleines Wiesental, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a heatable plastic component for a motor vehicle, which includes: providing a planar heating film, which has a first surface and a second surface that faces away from and is opposite the...